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The Best of 2014: Annual Year in Review
Previous yearly wrap-ups: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 What a year for reading! As usual, a breakdown of major categories from ChartGo.com. (Titles in bold constitute this year’s top ten list!) Earlier in the … Continue reading
2014 Cumulative Reading List
Considering I usually struggle to get to 150, I’m somewhat pleased and somewhat terrified by my results this year. The usual year in review will follow this weekend.Previous years: 2011 | 2012 | 2013 — January —1. The Red Queen, Matt Ridley2. Stonehenge: … Continue reading
Twilight’s End
Star Trek: Twilight’s End© 1996 Jerry Oltion279 pages Somewhere in space lies a planet that’s not spinning, and that just shouldn’t be so. Tidally locked, it poses a great inconvenience to the colonists who occupy the permanent perimeter between frozen … Continue reading
This week: fiction, the writing and reading of
Dear readers: The past few weeks have been taken up with National Novel Writing Month, of course. I got off to a roaring start, 20,000 words in the first week, before slowing down to the recommended average of 1667 … Continue reading
Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front
Life, Death, and Growing up on the Western Front© 2013 Anthony Fletcher352 pages In 1914 Britons marched to war, and with them they took their hearts. Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front takes in the experience of … Continue reading
A Short History of Byzantium
A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich© 1997 John Julius Norwich431 pages Rome fell in a.d. 474? Tell that to the Byzantines, who for centuries persisted in being an afterimage of the classical world, … Continue reading
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NaNoWriMo 2014
It’s National Novel Writing Month again, and I’m once again tasking myself with the challenge of writing 50,000 words before November is out. The challenge starts on November 1st, of course. I have an idea in mind that’s a quasi-fantasy … Continue reading
The Unknown War
The Unknown War© 1931 Winston Churchill396 pages The war to end all wars, what Sir Winston Churchill aptly described as the world crisis, began when a Serbian partisan assassinated the heir of Austria-Hungary’s throne, setting into motion a Rube Goldberg … Continue reading
Remembering
Remembering© 1988 Wendell Berry112 pages Andy Catlett is a man far from home, wounded in spirit and in body. His right hand was eaten and destroyed by mechanized farm equipment, and in attending an agricultural … Continue reading
Inch by Inch: A Reading
“If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked — but of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all … Continue reading
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