Scientist Gone Wordy

 Fired up the ol' blogger to post my annual book roundups but Google has made yet more changes to Blogger that finally cross the line in...

Favorite fiction: Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott Favorite non-fiction: A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips Favorite...

Started:            55 Finished:        46 non-fiction:    10 poetry:            1 short story:    1 audiobook:     5 Total pages:    14,438...

Favorite fiction: Kuragnaituku by Whiti Hereaka Favorite non-fiction: Struggle Without End by Ranginui Walker Favorite historical fic...

  NB: Child of Flame was a re-read since the audiobook came out so that should actually be 38hrs vs 916 pages   Willy Nilly is that Least ...

Title: The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France Author: Eric Jager Publisher: Broadway Books ...

To celebrate four years of drama watching, here is my top ten Chicago Typewriter Healer Hotel del Luna It's Okay to Not Be Okay The Lege...

 I've been off and on going through this blog for *mumble, mumble* years to tidy it up. I downloaded the whole thing to preserve for mys...

Favorite fiction: Tie! The Story of a New Zealand River by Jane Mander Circe by Madeline Miller Favorite non-fiction: Merchant, Miner,...

Purely by accident, I came by my very first blog post via a google search for something else (but still including sgwordy - let's not k...

Title: King Rat Author: James Clavell Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. ( 1962 )   I was delighted when Michael sent an email my way ...

I really adore this poem .

I was recently reading a book that was somewhere in the vicinity of 500 pages. It was holding my attention well at first but eventually...

One hopes that with each successive year we move to new and more interesting places but, alas, we are still having the same conversations ou...

Andrew rattles off information about the music playing in the pizza to his girlfriend, Nicole (Melissa Benoist). Sebastian, of course, pla...

Favorite fiction: Shahnameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (Dick Davis translation) An unusual pick as it was a year long read but a very worthwhi...

Still a sucker for my Year in Books

After seven years of great fun exploring books and their adaptations , Michael and I are rolling credits on our duo posts. I guess this is a...

Title: The Sentinel Author: Jeffrey Konvitz Publisher: Simon & Schuster ( 19 74 )   It's that spooky time of year again when...