I’m a Top 30 librarian on Goodreads (in the last week). Have you ever learned something about yourself that made you think—um, whut? Yet at the same, it made complete sense? That’s where my head’s at right now. Let me back up and explain how I got here. Growth of a Goodreads Librarian Goodreads started […]
Summary: Kurt Vonnegut advised against using semicolons, but he employed them regularly in his own writing. Learn about the eight different ways he used semicolons: What Vonnegut Said about Semicolons When the topic of semicolons arises, inevitably, someone will mention Kurt Vonnegut. Even people who don’t spend their lives writing, editing, and thinking about punctuation
One of the mysteries that J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have set up for the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the identity of the unnamed character who comets to Middle-earth near the encampment of the nomadic Harfoots. Known simply as “The Stranger” (Daniel Weyman) in marketing materials
A few months ago I started a side project which I have called The Laserflail. Think of it as a satirical news publication that covers the various speculative multiverses that we are aware of, and some which we are only just now discovering. Head on over and give it a read. You will surely like it.
I went to see Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi on Thursday night. It’s taken me longer to sort through my thoughts than expected, but I figured I’d put down a few non-spoilery reactions for those who haven’t seen it yet, as I did for Episode VII when it came out a couple years
International Cat Day was a few days ago. Being a fan of Robert Heinlein – who frequently included cats in his stories – I started a discussion on Facebook about which of his stories do not have cats in them. While a number of people provided feedback on stories in which they remembered (or didn’t remember) with
From about 15 – 10 years ago, I was very active in the Project Gutenberg community. I’ve long been a fan of both books and open culture, and I wanted to help spread some of the joy I felt from those areas of my life by contributing to the cause. A lot of the work I
As it turns out, 2016 was an exceptionally bookish year for me. According to my Goodreads stats, I read more books in 2016 than any year since I’ve started keeping track (though, not more pages – 2013 has 2016 beat by about 350 pages). But my year in books page only tells part of the book story. Sure, you
This post is part of a series on the Virginia Edition of Robert A. Heinlein’s works. This review of For Us, the Living serves as the exception that proves the rule of Heinlein. That is to say, it is terrible. Not only are all of the ideas about economics and social structure in the book outmoded and unworkable, but as a story,
This post is part of a series on the Virginia Edition of Robert A. Heinlein’s works. I have been excited to get to this book, not only because I have read (or rather, listened to) it before and enjoyed it, but also because it signals a run of much shorter books than the first two
