Well, Your Humble Blogger has finally finished reading The Meaning of Swarthmore, a collection of 48 essays by alumni, published as a development tool and mailed to all the alums who haven’t told the alumni office to sod off. It’s…
Your Humble Blogger picked up and reread Mary Poppins (NY: Harcourt 1997) whilst visiting friends. I have recently watched the wonderful Disney movie, but the books are my Mary. Julie Andrews does show the vanity, the imperturbability, the dishonesty, and…
Your Humble Blogger doesn’t have a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation to hand, so this note will be fairly general. Not, however, as general as Go Ye Forth and Read, which was my initial…
So, what with discussing hard sf in this TohuBohu a few times, when Your Humble Blogger saw Hal Clement’s Half-Life (NY: Tor 1999) on the library shelf, it went into the bag without a second thought. And boy, is this…
YHB was just looking for a bathtub book, but it turns out that Justice Hall was a good choice for Memorial Day weekend. I’ve always thought of Memorial Day as for WWI, for no very good reason. I have…
Your Humble Blogger is a pretty big W.P. Kinsella fan, so it shouldn’t be at all surprising that I liked the collection The Thrill of the Grass (NY: Penguin 1985). I liked some stories more than others, of course. “The…
YHB has read The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (NY: Avon 1963), by Dorothy L. Sayers, quite a few times, and I’m not quite sure why. I mean, it’s entertaining and all, but as a mystery, or rather as two…
Still on that Bleak House kick, YHB made it the whole way through Critical Essays on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, a collection of eight essays from varying viewpoints and methods. Or methodologies. Not sure. I’m afraid I am going to…
Yes, Your Humble Blogger has gone off the deep end about Bleak House. I sought out a “Reader’s Companion”, Bleak House: A Novel of Connections (Boston: Twayne 1990), by Norman Page. I assume the author isn’t the Norman Page who…
Your Humble Blogger uses the term ‘hero’ for a bunch of people who are really really good at what they do, who in some way do what I would do if I wanted to be in their field and had…