Tag Archives: week in review

I’ve been ill as of late, though I don’t know what of. I imagine it has a fun name, though, because it’s involved hallucinations, afternoons spent sleeping in the bathtub, and sentences that turn into meaningless babble halfway through their … Continue reading →

Currently I have three reviews/comments which need to be published — Jared Diamond’s The Third Chimpanzee, and two stories by James Patterson, Honeymoon and Judge & Jury.  I just read the Patterson novels yesterday, while babysitting at someone’s home and reading … Continue reading →

Between the Fourth of July and hospitalized relatives, this has been a poor week for reading. I typically read and review a book around the Fourth about the American Revolution: this year’s read was and still is The First Salute, … Continue reading →

This week at the library… I checked out: Sharpe’s Trafalgar, Bernard Cornwell Creations of Fire:  Chemistry’s Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age,   Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite and The Final Storm, Jeff Shaara, the finishing touch on … Continue reading →

Summer has arrived with a fury in south-central Alabama, and this past week’s heat and humidity broke several records. Suffice it to say, I’m very glad I’m not working in a factory this summer, but instead am babysitting…usually inside, though … Continue reading →

I’ve yet to write my review of To Kill a Mockingbird (past the first paragraph, anyway), but I loved it. I’m still enjoying The Ethical Assassin: if what I’ve read so far is an indication of what is to come, I … Continue reading →

I’m still waist-deep in last week’s reading (3/4s done with Earth Science Made Simple, halfway done with To Kill a Mockingbird, which is very readable, ‘classic’ status aside), but over the weekend I took care of some housekeeping business — … Continue reading →

My home library sits next door to City Hall on Selma’s downtown thoroughfare of Broad Street. Today I parked closer to City Hall than I usually do, and looked up at a lamp post to see a peculiar sign hanging on it. … Continue reading →

The last two weeks have been rather enjoyable, reading-wise. I’ve been reading from the lost books of the Septuagint — books which were in the original Jewish and Christian canons, but discarded by Martin Luther —  and  finding them interesting … Continue reading →