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Hey look, finished another title off my long-suffering 50 Classics list! Regrettably, it was Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strangeland. Finishing it took enormous force of will, for this was a truly, truly, truly terrible...
I do some long distance driving, walking and hiking and I’ve dabbled with audio books so I’ve considered the various rental options out there. Most have monstrous DRM processes or file formats that don’t...
Not that I doubt the prophetic powers of Amazon.com’s shopper profiling algorithm, but consistently bizarre results have given me pause to consider if I’m not the person I think I am. If you’re not...
On the advice of NPR’s Books podcast I decided to read Stephen Berlin Johnson’s The Ghost Map. A work of non-fiction, the book begins with London’s deadliest cholera epidemic in the year 1954. Set...
