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I recently finished The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard. It didn’t exactly work for me, though I have nothing but praise for Ballard’s descriptive writing. Incredibly atmospheric. I’m currently reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as a crime story collection titled Killer, Come...

Today I thought about how easier vultures’ lives have gotten since the proliferation of the automobile. I mean, highways seemingly spawn carcasses. We’re living through a golden era for winged scavengers.

Finished A Moveable Feast — excellent. I’ve immensely enjoyed each of the five books I’ve read from EW. I‘ve moved on to to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye.

Come back, brother. The Emperor protects... :)

I’ve never read anything from him, but I do have A Perfect Spy on my bookshelf. I’d like to get to it before the year’s end.

I learned that author John Irving, whose novels include The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules, received a C- in his high school English class, and his SAT verbal score was 475, which is below average.

I’m reading GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, and A Moveable Feast by Hemingway.

Interesting update. ☺️ I’m further into Shōgun now, and these adjoining sentences from the novel jumped out at me: "I am your liege lord. You-will-do-as-I-order." The first sentence is italicized for emphasis, and I presume the second sentences is hyphenated for an even greater emphasis? To...

I use to post musings like this on my blog on the old site. I have to make do. :)

So my daughter read one of her middle grade novels to me a few evenings ago — a daily routine of ours — and we encountered the following passage: He kept to the center of the street, wary of the houses on both sides. They stood ominous and dark; no light shone from behind their dusty windows...

Chillin' on vacation. :cool:

I learned that James Garfield, who would go on to become the 20th president of the USA, nearly died as teenager, but was saved by what could be called a miracle. Excerpt from Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic: As he stood alone at the bow one night, struggling with a coiled rope, he...

I hit a few bumps in the road. I DNF’d both World War I and Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun. Then I grabbed Bernard Cornwell’s Rebel off my bookshelf, only to quickly DNF it. On the plus side, I’m burning through my TBR pile. 😁📚 I’ve moved on to two others: Dark...

Question for anyone: how would you write a sentence (dialogue in this case) where every word is given emphasis? In the Shōgun example, I‘m not a fan of the hyphenated look nor the multiple period look. I would opt for something like the following: Toranaga stressed each of his next words. "I...

I see. That’s not how I read it. The hyphens gave me the impression the words were connected and should be read together quickly, like a single long word. For instance, twenty-four-year-old.