What makes a good bathtub book? Well, and I pose that question generally, as if there were a general answer. There isn’t. People are different, one to another, and (as YHB may have mentioned before) that’s what makes the world…
In Which Your Humble Acquaintance gives a lesson in handling a temperamental beast.
Your Humble Blogger has mentioned before that the social conservatives haven’t actually been very successful since their Party took power, counting either from 1994 or 2000. They were on about the homosexual agenda, abortion, disrespect for Christians (well, for them,…
So. Your Humble Blogger has a friend who is at the right moment in life to really enjoy a Mix Tape on the theme “Men are all Jerks”. At least so I judge. I could well be wrong. Also, I…
Just awful chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….
So the odd thing about Louis Sachar, from my point of view, is that although I liked Holes all right (I really liked the beginning, but was a trifle disappointed with the middle and end), my Perfect Non-Reader simply adored…
I enjoyed reading Jimmy Carter’s little book on Our Endangered Values. It wasn’t a very good book, though. It’s sloppy and poorly constructed, and fails to stick to its knitting. Still, I found it inspiring in places. As far as…
Have I hocked enough about how changes of scale are actually really important, and constitute changes of kind? No? Well, see for yourself. Now, the next step, Gentle Reader, is when you, YHB, and Giblets climb out of the giant…
So. More musings about fascism, I’m afraid. One thing that occurred to me during those musings was that I hadn’t remembered to link to Umberto Eco’s Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt. As long as I’m linking…
Your Humble Blogger is four behind on Book Reports, so rather than take the time to pound out some comment on having read Memory for the umpty-’leventh time, I’ll just note it and pass lightly on. I had wanted to…