I was up at close to 9 AM this morning! (After having been up until after 1 AM last night.) I haven’t been reading much lately and felt bad about it so before heading out to breakfast and then ball game, I decided to grab a book to bring along. I picked up American Prometheus:…
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There are few things as pleasant as spring afternoons. I was sitting out in the front yard the latter part of the afternoon, working my way through None So Blind (and thoroughly enjoying the novella, “The Hemingway Hoax”, which I had never read before). The temperature was in the upper 70s with a pleasant breeze.…
I was up at 8 AM this morning (after going to bed close to 1 AM last night), headed out for breakfast and started reading Joe Haldeman’s collection of short stories, None So Blind. I’ve spent a good portion of the morning reading it, in between various chores, and I’m about 70 pages through the…
I was up at 7 AM and shortly thereafter, headed to breakfast at IHOP, taking along Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair At Styles, the first of the Hercule Peroit mysteries. (I’ve read two other, years ago.) I started reading at breakfast, came home, read for a short time longer, and then decided that I was…
The last two days I’ve been more tired than usual. Not sure why but it was really showing today. I felt sluggish all through the work day and when I finally got home, I got into bed and fell asleep for 2 hours. I woke up feeling less tired, but out of sorts (naps like…
I’m heading outside with my copy of Imperial Earth to sit in the sun and read during my lunch hour (I already ate my PB&J sandwich and orange).
I was up around 8:30 AM yesterday morning. I walked into the office to check email and news, and saw, sitting on my bookshelf, where it has been sitting for months and months, Arthur C. Clarke’s Imperial Earth. For some reason, I was unable to resist it, so I took it with me to IHOP…
The July/August double issue of ANALOG was waiting for me when I got home last night. Like I did with SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, I’m trying to get through the entire magazine within a day or two, setting aside everything else I am reading until I’m done with it. I started on the train this morning with…
I finished Barry Malzberg’s Breakfast in the Ruins on the train ride home this evening and it was absolutely terrific! While I don’t necessarily agree with his positions on science fiction, he is an amazing writer with incisive insights into all aspects of the genre. He writes with emotion and gravitas and I completely enjoyed…
No that’s not a typo, but a clever pun. I’m just back from voting in my very local mayoral and ward council election. After a brief phone meeting that required my attention at 5 PM, I walked over the municipal center of Riverdale, Maryland to exercise my franchise. I’ve been reading while I walk more…