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My wife just finished L’Amour’s The Quick and the Dead and promptly recommended it to me. I’m sure I’ll get to it shortly. One of the books I’m currently reading is The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. It’s actually my first "dance" with Christie. Despite her story being a...

Yesterday evening I learned that Christopher Columbus had red hair. Excerpt from Ernle Branford’s Christopher Columbus: In appearance, as we know from the descriptions of those who met him in later years, Christopher Columbus was singularly un-Latin. No doubt, in the waves of invaders that...

Superheart - Count on Me

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Finished both the Bradbury short story collection and Huck Finn. Started One Hundred Years of Solitude.

King Creosote - For One Night Only

For nearly as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to jump inside a moving train. Not a speeding train, mind you. I don’t have any illusions about trying my luck at a Mission Impossible type stunt. I’m talking about hopping onboard a lazily moving, old-fashioned locomotive, one slowly working...

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...