Book – Page 21 – Failures in Polymathy

Speaker of the Dead – Orson Scott Card

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

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

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

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

Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.

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

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

Dispatches from the Edge is touching and horrifying, and reminds us how us how the fragility of live continues to effect us.

This book was a bit of a dip in the series, at least in comparison to the previous one.

Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.