I have, officially, too many books-in-progress. (Reading, not writing.) I usually have two or three going at the same time–different ones for different moods, or different locations–but this has just gotten out of hand.
The current list of books I’m partway through reading, plus the reason why I haven’t finished them yet:
Africa: A Biography of a [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 7 Comments »>So, as promised, what I thought about some of the books on the big 2007 list. I want to start with a little disclaimer, though–these aren’t really book reviews proper. I think a good book review should probably have some critical infrastructure, and should certainly have more thought put into it. This [...]
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Posted in personal, science fiction | 8 Comments »>I have just been informed that the Bay Area is either having or about to have a Massive Winter Rainstorm of Epic Proportions. (I can hear it raining outside, so we may already be in the midst of it, but it doesn’t sound like it’s raining all that hard yet? I don’t know.) [...]
Posted in personal | 5 Comments »>Working on a post about instrumentation, but in the meantime, Jackie complained that the previous post was too gloomy, so a followup: the Red Sox won their division for the first time in, what, seventeen years? Something like that? Even their World Series victory a few years back came after getting into the [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>The great fortune is mine, in that I’ve been practically drowning in wonderful media lately.
Some of it has been happenstance. Yesterday afternoon, for instance, I went to see The Lookout. Based on the ads I’d seen, my impression of this movie was something like “fast and flashy action movie, starring that kid from [...]
Three things:
1) At the end of the summer, I asked a lot of people for book recommendations. While I am still very busy, I’m not dissertation-crazy busy, and I have time to read fiction (and non-academic non-fiction) again. My friends are wonderful people, and I got a lot of great recommendations, and I’m [...]
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