Your Humble Blogger has been reading children’s books lately. Well, and that’s not really a surprise, as even though my Perfect Non-Reader has taken to Reading, she still lets the old man read her a book now and then. No,…
Your Humble Blogger recently revealed a fondness for Robert Silverberg’s writing. I didn’t, however, mention what I actually like about it. One thing I think he’s terrific at is world-building, which he often does quickly and powerfully, sketching rather than…
So, Gentle Reader, I’m sure that you have already decided that you have better things to do than to worry about that essay everybody keeps blogging, where Orson Scott Card debunks the Force. Or something. His conclusion appears to be…
Your Humble Blogger happened to spot an ad recently for a washer and dryer from LG, you know, the company that makes the refrigerator with the television on the front. The cool thing about these, though? A remote monitor. That’s…
Well, and as far as I can tell, the big news of the day is that Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor and Prescilla Owen get lifetime appointments to the federal appeals court, from which it will be hard to describe…
Well, and as Your Humble Blogger mentioned before, the first book in the Fool’s Guild series, Thirteenth Night, has been reprinted by Crum Creek Press (in a handsome paperback). And, as mentioned before, YHB enjoyed the book enough to read…
So I happen to like a lot of Robert Silverberg’s stuff. Well, not a lot percentage-wise. I’ve probably read about half the novels published under that name, and maybe fifty short stories, and I’ve liked maybe half of his stuff…
So, it seems to me that the headline Karzai Rejects U.S. Criticism on Opium is just sloppy. I mean, you can’t tell whether it’s Afghanistan’s president who is on Opium or the US critic. Or both. Or whether President Karzai…
One of the things that I like so much about Lois McMaster Bujold is her incredible facility with plot. And by facility here, I don’t so much mean that she writes the greatest plots there ever were, but that she…
Yes, Gentle Readers, you can file this one under “there’ll always be an England.” Or under Top Fives; the fun of the last set made me notice the story. The National Gallery and BBC Radio Four Today are starting a…