It rained all day…
Reports coming in from around the country and we have our typical deaths by landslide. This is what happens in a mountainous country such as Korea. I’m sure there was… Read more »
Category: Books
On getting older. And a good book…
Let me start with a bit of a disclaimer here. I’m about to describe some medical complications in this post, and I want to be perfectly clear that none of… Read more »
It’s About Time…
It still amazes me that I was alive for some pretty interesting events in the 20th century (and even got to see a few of them fairly closely). I believe… Read more »
A Basic Library: Recommendations for Understanding Christianity?
If you didn’t know, I’m a big fan of books. I’m also a big fan of trying to understand things through logic and clear explanation and with a decent economy… Read more »
Words! update…
A quick and very useful add to my previous “Words!” post. This too is from The Wilder Shores of Marx (I finished the book and it was quite good and… Read more »
I have slain the White Whale
I finished Moby Dick recently…and finally. I wanted to see if it was really as good and bad as my brother said. And the answer is “yes.” Resoundingly so. Here… Read more »
Words!
I’m not Kindle’s biggest fan, but it does have its good points. Of course, you can carry an entire library around with you in your pocket and always have something… Read more »
A few good things…
The Wilder Shores of Marx I’m quite enjoying this book. It’s written by Theodore Dalrymple (pen name of Anthony Daniels, a British doctor) who travelled to five communist countries (Albania,… Read more »
Discovery of the Random
If there’s one thing about which I frustrate myself it is the constant looking for books. Not even so much the reading (or the shortcomings thereof), but the search. We… Read more »