Cutting for Stone — Abraham Verghese (2009) The book is very long. I started it in March and it took me most of April to finish it. The twins (Marion and Shiva Stone) at the center of Cutting for Stone come into the world in a messy and peculiar way. Their mother, a shy Indian nun, …
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Books of June
A writer’s notes about books. Here are the books I read and listened to in June. Read: A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James In which there are a damned sight more than seven killings. Some of the narrative is true in a broad sense. The politics of Jamaica, the US efforts to direct Latin …
Morning Linkage (Jun 15)
Smart car — stupid truck, race transporters of a more elegant era, William GBibson helps you choose your summer reading, villains and riders — how can that fail, landscapes and street scenes, Nosferatu Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Morning Linkage (Mar 11)
Transportation You’ve seen the pictures of the hacked together ones but here’s the real deal. Motorcycle side-car based camera mount. The fabrication quality blows me away. Based on a 6 cylinder 1500cc what? Seats 4. Sexy enough to make me consider a electric car. Almost. Or I could buy one and put a real engine in …
Morning Linkage (Mar 8)
Transportation Low rent transformer of now neglected, beloved city mascot. This robot built of soviet era car parts stands outside of Odessa. Lovely. Thruxton based. Some background on the engine design of the IoM Norton I showed you a week or so ago. The squish combustion chamber was the idea of a janitor? Not really. …