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19.05.2024

Between the Round and the Square: Close reading a passage from The Road

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...

Between the Round and the Square

31.12.2022

Between the Round and the Square: 2022 Books

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...

Between the Round and the Square

30.12.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Consider the Author

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...

Between the Round and the Square

17.12.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Book Notes

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 ...

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03.12.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Restarting.

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...

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29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: This is how we let things go

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 ...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Book Notes, pt. 4

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: After the Quarantine

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 7: Persepolis Rising

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Ending another year.

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Check out my review from Los Angeles Review of Books

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: On monstrosity and history

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 ...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 6: Babylon's Ashes

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Returning soon...

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Foundation, Part 7: Prelude to Foundation

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 ...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: 2020 books

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Pop Science, Sci-fi and Detective Fiction

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Fermented Hot Sauce

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: A short break

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Foundation, part 8: Forward the Foundation

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 8: Tiamat's Wrath

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 5. Nemesis Games

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 ...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: God Emperor of Dune

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Here and Now and Then

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)...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: 337 by M. Jonathan Lee

I was recently given the opportunity to review 337 by M. Jonathan Lee, an upcoming release from Hideaway Fall. The narrative follows Sam D...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: David Foster Wallace

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 ...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Swedish Crust Punk

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 ...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: Imagining Earth's Future

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...

Between the Round and the Square

29.11.2022

Between the Round and the Square: 2021 Books

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....

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Between the Round and the Square - Books & Literature

Between the Round and the Square: Close reading a passage from The Road

Between the Round and the Square: 2022 Books

Between the Round and the Square: Consider the Author

Between the Round and the Square: Book Notes

Between the Round and the Square: Restarting.

Between the Round and the Square: This is how we let things go

Between the Round and the Square: Book Notes, pt. 4

Between the Round and the Square: After the Quarantine

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 7: Persepolis Rising

Between the Round and the Square: The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman

Between the Round and the Square: Ending another year.

Between the Round and the Square: Check out my review from Los Angeles Review of Books

Between the Round and the Square: On monstrosity and history

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 6: Babylon's Ashes

Between the Round and the Square: Returning soon...

Between the Round and the Square: Foundation, Part 7: Prelude to Foundation

Between the Round and the Square: 2020 books

Between the Round and the Square: Pop Science, Sci-fi and Detective Fiction

Between the Round and the Square: Fermented Hot Sauce

Between the Round and the Square: A short break

Between the Round and the Square: Foundation, part 8: Forward the Foundation

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 8: Tiamat's Wrath

Between the Round and the Square: The Expanse, part 5. Nemesis Games

Between the Round and the Square: God Emperor of Dune

Between the Round and the Square: Here and Now and Then

Between the Round and the Square: 337 by M. Jonathan Lee

Between the Round and the Square: David Foster Wallace

Between the Round and the Square: Swedish Crust Punk

Between the Round and the Square: Imagining Earth's Future

Between the Round and the Square: 2021 Books

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