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Category Archives: Books
Dear Diary
I’m reading George Orwell’s diary and Samuel Pepys’s diary one day at a time in Google Reader, as the entries are published. The two diaries are a study in contrasts. Pepys’s is detailed, run-on, and full of name-dropping, politics, and … Continue reading
Of the Character of one Mr. Brownlow
From There’s Pippins And Cheese To Come, by Charles S. Brooks (Yale University Press, 1917) By some slim chance, reader, you may be the kind of person who, on a visit to a strange city, makes for a bookshop. … … Continue reading
Logistical Speculation
I’ve just started John Keegan’s The First World War, on a topic of which I know little other than the abbreviated, over-simplified summary found in my high school textbook. The chapter on Schlieffen’s Plan brings to mind a question. What … Continue reading
Time to Read
Ernie says, I’m reading more these days now that I have my Kindle. How does having a Kindle give you more time to read? I’m constantly reading, but it’s e-mail, web pages, and too much stuff for work. I need … Continue reading
Mice or Men?
Randall O’Toole‘s latest book, The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future argues that planners don’t know jack shit. I’ll agree with that. However, he’s got such a big bug up his … Continue reading
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Mad Scientists’ Club
Who wouldn’t want to be a member? The Bigger Sister is reading well beyond what the schools expect of her, so at the library the other day, I went looking for some books that I remembered from when I was … Continue reading
