I got into bed to go to sleep and decided to read one more chapter of Rickles’ Book. Then I decided to read the next chapter. One thing led to another and I’ve finished the book, which puts me right back where I was at 5 PM, awaiting a shipment of books from Amazon. Gosh,…
Everyone has some sort of secret pleasure. For some people, I suppose, it’s chocolate, or cigarettes, or romantic comedies. Since we’re all friends here, I figured it was about time to share mine. Hollywood memoirs. I don’t indulge in this pleasure that often because I don’t want to spoil it. But in the past, I’ve…
Wow, I slept in later than usual this morning, finally getting up at 9:30. I had a headache before going to bed last night so I took a couple of Tylenol PM’s and I think that might be the culprit. Nevertheless, I slept well, even though it was very hot and humid last night (not…
Since I spent some time collecting some blog stats this morning, I spent a little more time culling some interesting reading stats, what I call reading “100s”. These are the 100th books that I have read (only 3 so far) and the duration between them.
Today I ordered Ian McDonald’s Brasyl, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and The Reagan Diaries. My list of upcoming books to read now looks like: Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight (in progress) Robert’s Rules of Writing by Robert Masello Brasyl by Ian McDonald The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan How the Mind Works by Steven…
At 10 PM, exactly, I finished The Accidental Time Machine. Wow! What a great book. I’m giving it 5-stars, which is a rating I rarely give, and while will make Joe Haldeman the only author to whom I’ve given 5-stars twice for fiction (The Forever War was the other 5-star book). In a way, it’s…
Aside from not wanting to put it down, one way I know I am really enjoying a book is the same way I know I am really enjoying a vacation. I get to the halfway point and begin to worry that I have less than half to go before I’m finished. I begin to wish…
I crawled into bed at about 9 PM last night and got started on Joe Haldeman’s The Accidental Time Machine, and right away I knew I was going to like it. I read the first 4 chapters (about 40 pages) before turning out the lights, and even then I was tempted to keep going on.…
Which was a weird story, hard to really figure out what was going on, but Gibson’s use of language and images made it all worthwhile. Even though I’m still not certain that I understand what happened. I’m grabbing some dinner and then starting in on Joe Haldeman’s The Accidental Time Machine, which I have also…
I’ve been feeling bad about this, like I haven’t been reading enough, until I read that one in four Americans didn’t read a single book last year! (Even the Norm half of vickyandnorm read a book this year, and Norm never reads!) And even my normal 38 or so books a year pales in comparison…
Almost 11:30 PM and just home from the Happy Hour after our last softball game of the regular season. We lost. Badly. So badly it was hard to take seriously. We finished with a record of 7-2 which places us 3rd in our division and guarantees us a place in the playoffs on September 8th.…
I had a fairly productive work day today and that felt good. Tomorrow, I’ll be in meetings for much of my work day. I ran over to the bookstore today to see if they had the August issue of Locus in yet, but they didn’t. While there, I did a bit of browsing and added…