Harry Potter: revisited & renewed
We recently watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — and I realized the movie is already twenty years old! I thought I’d read the book with my daughter, now that we’ve seen the movie, and I th…
Books
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The Enchanted Wood
A long time ago, when I was busy trying to read everything by Enid Blyton1, I came across The Magic Faraway Tree. And. I. Loved. It. This being the age before Amazon and not having a large library ar…
Of Androids and Electric Sheep
I’ve watched the original Bladerunner1 (many times) and the new one2 (once), but I hadn’t read the original novel3 (“Do androids dream of electric sheep?”) ever, despite repeatedly resolving to, and b…
The problem with Kindle
I got my first Kindle a decade ago. I got my second and third Kindle in the years since, but while the divide is amazing (and imho, I wouldn’t even want more out of it at this point), it’s the library…
Books give-away, featuring Airtable
Roughly every three years, I find I’ve amassed too many books, and have to give some (around 50-75) away. There was a great “used books store” in downtown Mountain View, which (tragically1) had to cl…
Against Everything
Just picked this up, seems ... uh ... promising?…
Rorschach tests
Sometimes I have flashback memories of certain small well-defined thing-experiences, this is one of them. It’s about a book, this book, and the timeframe here is … about 12 years ago (!), a year afte…
Seveneves
The last Neal Stephenson book I read was probably Anathem, which was a while ago (I remember I was enamored enough to have subsequently bought the “accompanying soundtrack1”). Before that had been th…
Library haul (Jun 2019)
Guess we got a bit greedy there ...…
Back to Neal Stephenson ….
I think the first Neal Stephenson book I read was Snow Crash, though it was some sort of partial online copy and I didn’t finish it all the way through. This was sometime in the late 90s. I liked it,…
Current library haul
Mini-Library haul
Wondering if I should switch to some more structured way of recording all these ... would make for a nice database to look back on later!…