Failures in Polymathy

Tiamat’s Wrath – James S. A. Corey

I once thought that reviewing a longer series would be a good idea, but as I got on with this one I felt that there were diminishing returns.

There are a lot of books I can throw into the ‘read for the wrong reason’ category. This is one

Reading this made me realize that my brain just won’t register horror in any normal way.

David Crystal wrote a nice little coffee-table of linguistic factoid.

Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.

A brief announcement on the state of this blog.

This won a Pulitzer?

It isn’t enough to have just a valid point. You also need to have a sound argument.

Sometimes as you read a sequel you just hope beyond hope that it wasn’t a marketing departments decision.

If you come into a book looking to answer just one question, you may come out of it disappointed.