Tag: books
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Book Asks
Authors on social media were playing this game where they would post an image of twenty questions about books, and promise they would answer 1 question from the list for each time someone “liked” their post. I’m not an author and nobody on BlueSky cares what books I like, but this looks like a fun… Read.
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TBR 07/02/2026
I am only about one-fifth of the way through the 1,100-page doorstop that is Chernow’s biography of Grant, and — this is the best part — I haven’t touched it in weeks. The only way for me to get through a book of this size is to read two or three hundred pages of it,… Read.
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TBR 05-07-2026
“Platform Decay” is the latest installment of a series of books from Martha Wells nicknamed “The Murderbot Diaries.” I read it in two days and enjoyed it, but then I enjoyed all the books in the series, although I enjoyed the earlier books more than the later ones, if I’m honest. The books chronicle Murderbot’s… Read.
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TBR 4/9/2026
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to be determined
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please please please let me like this
I really want to like the series Down Cemetery Road on Apple TV. I really do. The series was based on a novel by Mick Herron, who wrote the Slow Horses series of books. I enjoyed those books and enjoyed the very watchable television series that was adapted from the books. The got Emma Thompson… Read.
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One Ring
I just finished my twice-in-a-lifetime re-read of The Lord of The Rings yesterday evening. Twice in a lifetime seems like enough. First time was in high school, so that was, what, about forty years ago? And so I didn’t remember many of the details. I remembered the names of the principle characters, and there was… Read.
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books galore
“Spook Street” is the fourth novel in the ‘Slow Horses’ series of spy thrillers by Mick Herron. The story circles around David Cartwright, a top-tier spook of the Cold War era, as he slides into senility at about the same time that an unknown agency decides to take him out of the picture. I like… Read.
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books books books
It took me a while, but I finally finished reading “Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad. And when I say “it took me a while,” I mean it took me years. As in, decades. I’m pretty sure I tried to read it for the first time forty years ago after I read “Heart of Darkness.” Probably… Read.
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Go Away
I see that A Room Of One’s Own is for sale. It’s one of the few remaining independent bookstores in Madison, and I hope it finds a buyer because I would hate for Madison to lose another bookstore. I would buy it myself, except that I would have to rename it Go Away, I’m Reading,… Read.
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