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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

May 8, 2020March 30, 2020

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – Dennis E. Taylor

Some books challenge you directly. Other can challenge you indirectly.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Talk on the Wild Side – Lane Greene

I seem not to be tiring of books on linguistics. It may be because books like this are just so interesting that I don’t mind going over the same information over again.

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Epic, Fiction, Mythology, Poetry  0 Comments

April 24, 2020March 29, 2020

The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)

Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 10, 2020December 28, 2019

Speaker of the Dead – Orson Scott Card

Speaker for the Dead won me over, despite a slow start.

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Medicine, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

April 3, 2020December 30, 2019

The Penis Book – Aaron Spitz

I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.

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Fiction, Satire, Science-Fiction, Surrealism  0 Comments

March 27, 2020December 19, 2019

The Snail on the Slope – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?

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Essays, Medicine, Neurology, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

March 20, 2020October 2, 2019

The Mind’s Eye – Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks books are always interesting, but there is little new to say about one versus another.

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Europe, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 13, 2020November 27, 2019

Space Opera – Catherine M. Valente

Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.

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Essays, Humour, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

March 6, 2020September 21, 2019

The Portable Curmudgeon – Jon Winokur

The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

February 28, 2020October 30, 2019

Eon – Greg Bear

I didn’t want to dislike this book, but I just didn’t seem to scratch any itch.

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