Scientist Gone Wordy

T itle: Sphere A uthor: Michael Crichton Publisher: Knopf  (1987) In a few short hours I will be w e nding my way back to the...

T itle: The Accidental Tourist   A uthor: Anne Tyler Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf  (1985) All the news I'm reading makes me fee...

Scientists having fun . :)

T itle: Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Ap ollo 13 A uthor: Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Co (1994) ...

but it's only big enough for your head.

For Leduc, literature, like life, was a place where some people damage us and some people save our lives—and then it is lunchtime.   S...

I'm one of those that just doesn't get all the hullabaloo about Neill Blomkamp movies. With Chappie coming up, someone else who it ...

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There’s a profound insecurity at the heart of any agenda that presumes that if kids aren’t spoon fed a black and white fairy tale of our n...

T itle: C lose Range: Wyoming Stories (includes Brokeback Mountain) A uthor: Annie Proulx Publisher:  Fourth Estate (1999) I really ...

Everyday is for the thief, but one day is for the owner. English translation of Yoruba proverb included at the beginning of Every Day is f...

T itle: Breakfast at Tiffany's A uthor: Truman Capote Publisher:  Random House (1958) I 'm really excited to sta rt the y...

Watching this video this morning I felt a special glow of warmth for Marshawn Lynch: Watching this video this evening I knew it was love...

Because we come to the world fresh we foolishly suppose that with our new lives new possibilities are born. It isn't true. The short ra...

Favorite fiction: The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox Favorite non-fiction: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Mode...

T itle: Hell House A uthor: Richard Matheson Publisher:  Viking Press (1971) I think this final title of our year might be the thir...

T itle: The Earthsea Quartet*   A uthor: Ursula Le Guin Publisher:  See note As I recall, this month kicks off The Slide (made...

So happy to have internet changeover complete and good connectivity back. For many reasons obviously but also because I got to play swtor an...

Title: The Andromeda Strain Author: Michael Crichton Publisher:  Knopf (1969) I assume we'll all be glued to our televisions th...