Your Humble Blogger has several ‘favorite books’, as I hope most people do. I imagine that most people will go back and forth between those favorites depending on their mood, what else they’ve read recently, and how recently they’ve reread…
It’s a trifle awkward for Your Humble Blogger to talk about New Voices in Science Fiction (New York: DAW 2003), as my gracious host and some of my Gentle Readers may well have friends and associates among those new voices,…
Under no circumstances should any Gentle Reader buy From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis, and even borrowing it from a library isn’t recommended. Your Humble Blogger will rarely make…
Your Humble Blogger has been picking through the surprisingly good collection of graphic novels and comics at the local library. After somebody reminded me that I hadn’t read any Hellblazer, I got Hellblazer: Good Intentions, and, well, enh. Was I…
It took a month to get through it, but Your Humble Blogger is glad The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber (New York: Simon & Schuster 2003) didn’t wind up getting returned to the library…
At some point in April, needing a comfort book, Your Humble Blogger re-read Brothers in Arms (New York: Baen 1989), by Lois McMaster Bujold. The first several chapters appear to be available on-line. It isn’t one of my very favorite…
Your Humble Blogger was going to direct Gentle Readers to this interesting but wordy article by Jay Rosen, who makes an interesting note about the changing place of the Press in the minds of the public and in the minds…
In 1988, Your Humble Blogger supported then-Senator Paul Simon’s candidacy. At the time, I only wore a bow tie on occasion; I liked his policies more than his style. Also, Rep. Gephardt had no eyebrows. Bruce Babbitt stood up for…
Having already read Steven Brust’s The Phoenix Guards (New York: Tor 1991) once without falling for it Your Humble Blogger isn’t quite sure how it came to be in his hands upon leaving the library. I suppose, knowing that many…
Your Humble Blogger had read The Gods Themselves (New York: Doubleday 1972) in my adolescent Asimov-reading days, but never got around to it during my more or less middle-aged Asimov re-reading days. It’s, um, well, it’s an Asimov book, but…