Monday, December 30, 2024

10 years of Bicycle Quarterly

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 I'm much too cheap to pay $44/year for a subscription to Bicycle Quarterly . Their back issues are also expensive. But someone offered ...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Review: How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't

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 How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't is a book by Yale doctor and physician Perry Wilson. It is readable, funny in many parts, and w...
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Monday, December 23, 2024

Re-read: V for Vendetta

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 In the wake of the murder of Brian Thompson by a vigilante I had to re-read V for Vendetta , Alan Moore's treatise on totalitarianism a...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Review: The Impossible Man

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 The Impossible Man is a biography of Roger Penrose, who won the Nobel prize for physics in 2020 for his work on black holes in his early c...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Review: The Bright Sword

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 The Bright Sword is Lev Grossman's contribution to the Arthurian mythos. Rather than tell the story of King Arthur right out, Grossman...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Review: A Widow for One Year

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 John Irving has always been hit or miss for me. I enjoyed The Ciderhouse Rules and The World According to Garp , but bounced off A Son of ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Review: Fire Max 11

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 Boen's Fire HD 10 wasn't getting much use so I traded it in for a Fire Max 11 . Over the years I've come to expect low performa...
Monday, December 09, 2024

Review: Castle in the Air

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 Castle in the Air is the second book in Diana Wynne Jone's series that started with Howl's Moving Castle . Rather than being told ...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Review: Flashpoint

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 I came across Flashpoint after I fished Three Jokers and checked it out despite my misgivings about Three Jokers. To my surprise this is a...
Monday, December 02, 2024

Review: Three Jokers

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 For various reasons, we activated a Kindle Unlimited subscription. I was browsing and saw Three Jokers and checked it out for grins. This ...
Sunday, December 01, 2024

2025 Book Reviews

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Non-Fiction The Impossible Man How Medicine Works and When it doesn't Engineering in Plain Sight Die With Zero Year's Best Science ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Books of the Year 2024

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 I read 63 books this year, which comes out to more than a book a week. A lot of the books were re-reads, which I do not regret, since many ...
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Friday, November 22, 2024

Yosemite 2024: Mirror Lake Loop

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  The forecast was for rain and snow but it got moved back to Monday afternoon from Sunday night! Driving into the park was saw notices th...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Review: Bruce Lee - A Life

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 I enjoyed Matt Polly's book enough that when I saw he had a biography of Bruce Lee I decided to check it out from the library. This is ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Yosemite 2024: Sentinel Dome, Roosevelt Point, Taft Point

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  On the way to Glacier Point road, the GPS on the phone announced that Glacier Point Road was closed. I kept going, assuming that there w...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Yosemite 2024: Mist and Vernal Falls

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  For the Veteran's Day long weekend this year we decided to visit Yosemite National Park, having never been there in the Fall. On Fri...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Review: The End is Always Near

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 The End Is Always Near purports to be a history book about apocalyptic moments from the past. In practice, the apocalyptic moments it discu...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Yosemite 2024 Index Page

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 We visited Yosemite for Veterans Day. It was our first time there in the fall. Photos Mist and Vernal Falls Sentinel Dome, Roosevelt Point,...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Review: Kiki's Delivery Service

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 I of course enjoyed Kiki's Delivery Service as a Hayao Miyazaki movie, but I never realized that it was based on a book of the same na...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Review: Tapped Out

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 I remember enjoying American Shaolin, so when I saw that Matt Polly had a follow-on book called Tapped Out, I decided to check it out and...