Welcome to my blog. There will mostly be posts about books, words and quotes. Once a week I will post What are you Reading? about what I am reading and invite your comments about what you are reading. In addition, there may be an occasional original poem or some other post.
Books
I will only review books that I like. I read pretty omnivorously but some favorite genres are:
Fiction
- Science fiction - favorites include
- Samuel Delaney
- William Gibson
- Robert Heinlein
- Nancy Kress
- Larry Niven
- Terry Pratchett
- John Scalzi
- Neal Stephenson
- Theodore Sturgeon
- John Varley
- Mystery - favorites include
- Lee Child
- Jeffrey Deaver
- Carl Hiaasen
- Stuart Kaminsky (especially the Russian novels)
- John Lescroat
- Linda Nagata
- Carol O'Connell's earlier work
- Robert Parker
- S. J. Rozan
- John Sandford
Nonfiction
- History - especially the Enlightenment era. Mostly European and American history.
- Science - all sorts, including "hard" science, behavioral science, social science and so on.
- Mathematics - I have limited training but I like math
- Philosophy
- Biography - especially historical figures from Europe and America.
Words
Rather than just giving you a word and its definition, I will be writing more extensively about each word. These will
not be highly technical words. They will be words that I read in the course of my reading of general interest books. I will also sometimes write about word-related topics that I find interesting.
Quotes
As with words, I am not going to just post a quote - I will write about each quote. I have a lot of favorite quotes.
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