Book Report: Beware of Gd
I had heard good things about Beware of Gd, the book of short stories by Shalom Auslander, and picked the book up at my local library. Not the local public library, but the library at Temple Beth Bolshoi. Now, I…
Smells like victory.
I know I’ve blogged about this whole United States Attorney business before, but the thing has taken a bit of a turn, and I don’t think Left Blogovia is doing a very good job of articulating what is going on….
sustaining the unsustainable, for four hundred years
OK, so Your Humble Blogger is almost certainly wildly off-base on this stuff, but I keep worrying at it, in my mind, and I thought I’d share. Because I am seriously perplexed, and have been for many years, about the…
Book Report: Sir Thursday
So. Having enjoyed Drowned Wednesday, YHB had been looking forward to Sir Thursday. Then it came out, last spring I suppose, and I didn’t know about it. Digression: Neither of our two local library branches have a New Books shelf…
What about Goodnight, Moon?
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As I was ruminating on Girls’ Books and Boys’ Books yesterday, I put the question to my Perfect Non-Reader: Are there Girl Books and Boy Books. She answered affirmatively without hesitation. When I asked for details, she thought a bit,…
First in income, first in nutmegs, last one in the pool is a rotten egg
I happened across a fellow blogging as Gideon over at Public Defender, who has a note about a recent report that says, among other things, that Connecticut has the longest average time to select juries for both serious criminal tries…
Book Report: Princess Academy
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I had purchased Princess Academy at a school fund-raising book sale—on of those Scholastic things that have good prices, make money for the school, and get kids excited about books—the bastards—back in the autumn sometime, and never got around to…
Book Report: Old Man’s War
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So, the last time YHB read Old Man’s War, the discussion was about the power of internet marketing. I said that I enjoyed reading John Scalzi’s Whatever, which led me to think that I might enjoy his novel. On the…
Book Report: The Wee Free Men
I think I have mentioned before that I consider Terry Pratchett’s books to be mildly enjoyable, mildly annoying, and pretty safe. I pick one up from the library now and then, knowing that if I’m looking for something not very…
The gate of late and weary ones, the shared world, and white powder, too
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You know those stories about things that happen to Arabic-speaking people in American airports? I hope you read this one, a note from the poet and children’s book author Naomi Shihab Nye. I found it through Book, Book, Book but…