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It’s been a hell of a month between the US in general, problems with Mom’s care, and my health doing some strange things. My reading has...

I'm just starting Douglas Preston's Extinction - basically, Jurassic Park, but in a Colorado valley in the Rockies, and with Pleistocene...

Never? Now that sounds like a challenge to my spongy brain. There’s at least a 76% chance that I think any two characters whose name...

Not quite the same, but there's a nature documentary on...Prime (?) about Russia, and the guy narrating has some out-of-the-blue WILD...

I’m relieved to know it’s not just me and that reading of Revelation Space.

It's not just a matter of pronunciation. It's quite possible for a bad reader to break a book, or a good reader to make it, irrespective...

Finished reading Mona Lisa Overdrive. It boggles my mind that back in the day I read the first two books and never got to the third. It...

Stephen King is like that, to me at least. His best stuff was early on when he was hungry, drunk, or coked up. It's his later, more...

Reading through a stack of new books. Mutual Aid by Dean Spade. This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb Jr. How...

Maurice Sendak also edges out Dickinson nowadays, I'd say.

Back when I was working recording audiobooks, we recorded a book about Emily Dickinson that described her as "America's best and...

Theodor Geisel has entered the chat....

Egad. The middle of Kingdoms of Death, book #4 of the Sun Eater, has one of the most grueling passages I’ve read outside of horror...

I've read a bunch of his works, and they've all been excellent and fun.

Chabon's a great author, very gifted writer. It's anecdotal, but my brother met him once and said he was a great guy, very down to...