Gentle Readers, y’all are probably aware that I’m fond of the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. My most recent re-read is Memory (Riverdale: Baen 1997). It’s terrific (tho’ my Best Reader discovered an odd inconsistency). The most impressive thing,…
OK, so Your Humble Blogger is noting every book read this year, right? The point of the exercise is to track what I read, not to have intelligent or witty things to say about each one. Neil Gaiman, The Sandman:…
I never made it into the new location, and as I no longer live in the town, it won’t affect me personally, but makes me sad that the Avenue Victor Hugo will not be there anymore. For some time, the…
Have I ever mentioned on this site that I adore college hockey? My own Terriers had a lousy year, most of which I missed as I am no longer in the land of the Beanpot. I idly checked the potential…
There’s a fascinating article by Marcy Wheeler over at the Blogging of the President 2004 about the feuilleton. Ms. Wheeler is planning a series of articles on the feuilleton and the blognote, and I for one am interested to see…
Your Humble Blogger admits that this space was reserved for a vicious and nasty analysis—well, no, not an analysis, just an attack, really, on Our Only President’s speech marking a year since we invaded Iraq. That won’t be happening here….
Your Humble Blogger thinks of blognotes as essays of sorts, that is, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, as short literary compositions on a single subject, usually presenting my personal view. So when I saw The Best American Essays 2003…
The problem with books is that there are lots of ways to ruin them. I mean, say, for instance, you have a really good idea for a caper novel. José Latour clearly did. I mean, October 1958, Havana, the government…
Your Humble Blogger’s local library has a surprisingly good collection of graphic novels and such. Although the cover of Doug TenNapel’s Creature Tech (Marietta: Top Shelf 2002) wasn’t all that enticing, a quick flip through the pages showed a pretty…
Your Humble Blogger came across Anita Diamant when looking for info about my Perfect Non-reader’s naming ceremony. The New Jewish Baby Book was pretty clearly the best of breed, and was written in the sort of voice that made me…