Category Archives: Books

I’ve missed a lot of read­ing time this week. We saw some awe­some music.… Knopfler and Dylan on Saturday, Andras Schiff played all of Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier on Monday and last night Mozart, Beethoven, Hayden and a world pre­miere — Dai Fujikura’s Mina, Concerto for 5 Soloists and Orchestra. That last piece … 

Continue read­ing “#fri­dayreads 19.oct.2012”

Things I’m in the mid­dle of: Forensics for Dummies, Douglas P. Lyle — What it says on the tin. Simplistic but it does the trick as all I’m look­ing for a smat­ter­ing of back­ground and some vocab­u­lary lessons. The inter­est­ing stuff will come lat­er.  29th Years Best Science Fiction, Dozios — Dipping in and out. This … 

Continue read­ing “#FridayReads — 5.Oct.2012”

Picked up The Jewel Hinged Jaw, Samuel Delany. Because Delany came up in a con­ver­sa­tion recent­ly and then I came across this lit­tle screed on io9:overmind http://io9.com/5910814/what-samuel-r-delany-can-tell-publishing-about-its-latest-trend Typically shal­low but hits a pain point of mine about how many authors have suc­cumbed to the pro­duc­tion line via ghost writ­ers and co-authors and how the product … 

Continue read­ing “#fri­dayreads 1.jun.2012”