Tag Archives: books

Since I’m going to finish my re-read of Tigana this evening, I’ve closed my “What to read next” poll. There were only ten votes, with Dan Simmons’s The Terror taking six votes over Stephen King’s It. So there it is. … Continue reading →

I’m just about finished with A Farewell to Arms, which means that in the next day or two I’ll be reading Tigana. And that means that it’s time for my next poll of what I need to read after Tigana, … Continue reading →

Well, voting has closed on my inaugural “Make Me Read!” poll, and it wasn’t even close. Sylvia Plath got stomped. I guess there are no fans of hers among my readers? Or maybe people just think that Hemingway is better. … Continue reading →

OK, I decided that what this blog needs is a new feature. So here’s a new feature. Over there on the sidebar — go ahead and look, you might need to scroll down slightly, so I’ll wait for you to … Continue reading →

Thanks to Alan, I can just throw up a link to this article whenever I want to make plain my opinion of Ayn Rand. I only differ from that writer in that I thought Rand’s writing and thinking were crap … Continue reading →

After the Twilight debacle, I needed something good to read. I’ve been hankering to do a complete re-read of Guy Gavriel Kay’s entire corpus, but I spied something on my stacks that I’ve been meaning to get to for a … Continue reading →

I tried, folks. I’m not usually one to jump on whatever the literary bandwagon of the moment happens to be — despite my love of a good conspiracy tale, preferably involving the Knights Templar and the secret history of Jesus … Continue reading →