Scientist Gone Wordy

Time and/or interest often prevents me from reviewing much of what I read so when the mood strikes I'm going to start listing just a few...

A couple months ago now I came by this comment: "Yeah, that's how I felt about Outlander . It was alright but I didn't see what...

Title: The Lathe of Heaven Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher: Avon Books (1973) Michael (of Lazy Thoughts From a Boomer fame) recent...

The ever-inspiring Apprentice Writer recently wrote about book grading systems . Ooh, oooh, I want to play! Previous visitors to sgwordy ...

Is the the folded up treadmill a good place to relax? Guess so!

Title: Last Night's Scandal Author: Loretta Chase Publisher: Avon (2010) I read Loretta Chase's Last Night's Scandal a coupl...

Meet the Sniper is pretty fun, too!

A while ago I posted about Eating the Dinosaur . I'm back to chat a bit about the last chapter which drove me nuts. It's written in ...

If you thought you knew all the depressing little perfidies that led the US into Iraq you, like me, might be surprised to learn that the tru...

I tried to read Moo by Jane Smiley years ago but I wasn't able to get into it (though Horse Heaven is one of my favorite reads). But I...

I can't believe Michael and I had all that chatty chatty about The Princess Bride and neither of us mentioned the song Storybook Love...

Title: The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure: the "good parts" version Author: Wi...

English: a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.

Title: Eating the Dinosaur Author: Chuck Klosterman Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2009) I truly have no idea how to summarize Eating the...

Title: Blue-Eyed Devil Authors: Lisa Kleypas, Robert B. Parker Publishers: St. Martin's Press (2008), G.P. Putnam's Sons (2010) Sin...

My seemingly non-stop whining about series over the last 6 months and Apprentice Writer's recent post inspired me to turn whining into ...

Title: Sympathy for the Devil Author: Kent Anderson Publisher: Bantam (2000), originally published in 1987 Quick aside - the copyright page...

The price increase for Xbox Live subscriptions will probably go unnoticed in many (ok, most) households but this one takes notice. And Dr M...

Titles: The Spymaster's Lady             My Lord and Spymaster Author: Joanna Bourne Publisher: Berkley Sensation (2008) The Spymas...

And can I get in touch with his stylist?