Monthly Archives: June 2007
The Martian Child
Feh. It seems disingenuous to keep on about how much I detest DDGFBFGF (Dan-David-GoodFag-BadFag-Gerrold-Friedman) and then keep blogging about his books every day. Though I can honestly say that I disliked this one. Partly it’s that I heard him tell … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Memoir, Reject Pile
Bouncing Off The Moon
So I finished the sequel to Jumping Off The Planet. And I liked it. If anything, the Heinlein influence is even stronger in this installment, particularly the concept of a computer "waking up" and becoming "sentient", which Heinlein examined at … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Science Fiction
Breach of Faith
Another Katrina book today. Like The Great Deluge, Breach of Faith documents Katrina’s assault on New Orleans through the stories of dozens of people who lived through it. While Deluge strictly limited itself to the week or so surrounding the … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Katrina, New Orleans, Non-Fiction
Dishwasher
Sometimes, while checking in books and marveling at some of the crap that people actually read, I come across a book that is odd enough to spark my interest. So it was that yesterday I brought home a copy of … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Memoir
Reading The Cards
Working a full day down in Eatonville again today and tired cuz an almost full can of diet Pepsi got knocked over into the bed and flooded us out just as I was getting to sleep. Feh. The summer that … Continue reading
Filed under Off-Topic
Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things
Gary Geddes is a poet, editor and teacher in Vancouver, BC who is fascinated by stories of Huishen, an obscure Buddhist monk said to have fled persecution in Kabul, Afghanistan circa 450BC, traveled across China via the Silk Road then … Continue reading
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Jumping Off The Planet
Happy Birthday to me. Forty-three today, egad. Working a longish shift at Eatonville library, blogging on my breaks, and contemplating growing older and growing up as I push my cart through the stacks. Wondering if perhaps maturity means learning to … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Science Fiction
an irritating immigration mystery
I found this latest installment in Rita Mae Brown‘s Mrs. Murphy series a bit of a mixed bag. The newly re-married Harry and Fair (Mary Minor and Pharamond) Haristeen have driven to Kentucky for a major horse show. The usual … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Mystery
Remembering Katrina
Today I want to talk about a couple of Katrina books I’ve read recently. DISASTER Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security provided a very different perspective and proved very enlightening. The book begins with a discussion of “Hurricane … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Katrina, New Orleans
Not Left Behind
Joel and Alan– Summer 1997 I really like the way Bev’s blog shows This Day In My History, allowing easy access to posts from this day in years past. This started out to be a post remembering this day two … Continue reading
Filed under Katrina, New Orleans, Photography
