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Between the Round and the Square
19.05.2024
I want to try something that I haven’t done in a long time. I am going to attempt to perform a close reading of a passage in a novel. I ha...
31.12.2022
I don't write about all of the books that I read. Here is a list of the books that I read in 2022. Abrahams, Peter. A Perfect Crime. Adam...
30.12.2022
This is something that I started writing some time ago and I think that it has legs but I lost track of it and just never finished it. As o...
17.12.2022
I wrote this some time last year or the year before. I'm not sure when this is from, exactly. I am posting without further comment. Island ...
03.12.2022
It has been some time since I have posted anything here. I am, optimistically, going to set myself up to begin posting again. There are some...
29.11.2022
So here it is, I have reached the end of Asimov's Foundation series. For a minute I was going to sit down and write an outline for this pos...
Having finished the 6 th installment of James SA Corey's The Expanse series, I have to take a moment to step back a little from the nove...
The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman This is a fun story about a one-way time machine that is, as the title suggests, accidentally d...
So, last week I wrote what turned into a real downer of a post about history and about monstrosity. That isn't where it started. I began ...
I keep coming back to David Foster Wallace’s work. This is an old story, and one that I may have shared on this blog before, but here it ...
So I just finished Nemesis Games , the fifth book in The Expanse series by James SA Corey. This book changes tactics in a couple of ways ...
I am ending out 2021 without ever having returned to the blog. After all of the changes of 2020, I had high hopes for 2021. I won't say th...
I have missed the last couple of Monday postings and it looks like I might miss a couple of more. Things have gotten busy with some new pr...
Last year I decided that I was going to read as much of a few classic sci-fi series as I could. In that time, I have been working my way t...
Every now and then I read – or in this case, reread – a novel that meshes with the events in the world around me. The novel takes on a new ...
Kim Stanley Robinson seems to write two kinds of books. Both are hard sci-fi in the sense that they focus on either current technology or n...
For those who check in here on any sort of basis: this is a note of explanation for my recent absence and my plan for return. Over th...
I don't write about all of the books that I read. Here is a list of the books that I read in 2021. Asimov, Isaac. Forward the Foundation....
I have finally caught up with the series that I started back in October of 2019. All things considered, I don't think I made a bad job of i...
Just a post about 3 books I recently read. The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez is a cool book. It hit a lot of buttons for me. Her...
Ever since I began reading The Expanse series, I have made a point to avoid reading too much about it and I have not watched more than a co...
Best book of the year: Hex runner up: Radicalized I don't always write about everything that I read. For what it's worth, here is a lis...
Sometimes I don't feel like writing up full posts on books. Sometimes I want to write short notes about things that aren't books. Here ar...
So I'm not officially back yet but check out this link to read my review of Lee Matthew Goldberg's new book Orange City. I'll be back in...
This is the text of a talk that I gave at the Working-Class Studies Association conference earlier this month. This concerns the working c...
I was recently given the opportunity to review 337 by M. Jonathan Lee, an upcoming release from Hideaway Fall. The narrative follows Sam D...
I recently came across the album Det Svenka Hatet by Swedish band Ett Dodens Maskineri on Spotify the other day and I haven't been able to ...
Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen This is an entertaining time travel book. Kin Stewart, an agent for the Time Corruption Bureau (TCB)...
Nearly a year and a half ago, I undertook to read through Asimov's classic sci-fi series, Foundation , and write about the books. This is ...
Habanero-garlic and Ghost pepper sauces I love hot sauce. A few years back I discovered that I also like growing the peppers and making the...