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Reading from the perfect library (or not)

I noted yesterday The Telegraph‘s list of the 110 books it considers “the perfect library.” Perhaps further proving I am an illiterati, I evidently have not spent enough time in that library.

I’ve read only 17 of the books on the list — and more than a third were SF novels. I’m not going to […]

Catching up marginalia

As I continue to catch up (and recover) from the Frozen Four journey, a few items of linkage before substantive posting resumes.

The 2008 Reading the World website is open for business. This year, it features 25 works in translation from 15 different presses. I picked up one of the books while in Denver. (Via.) […]

Final Frozen Four trip observations

Travel to and from the Frozen Four can be awfully exhausting. I’m just now starting to get back in the swing of things. But then it isn’t just watching three great hockey games, there’s the atmosphere and simply being a tourista. Some final, albeit somewhat random, thoughts:

Add to the hockey games trips to at […]

Frozen Four marginalia

Cutting through all the preliminaries: Spending about seven consecutive hours in Pepsi Center to watch live championship college hockey — Priceless.

Granted, the seven hours includes getting there 30 or so minutes early to watch warm ups, a 50 minute break between the semifinal games and a total of five intermissions. But even from our […]

Happy times for hardcore hockey fans

Probably a significant portion of the US population was watching the NCAA men’s basketball championship last night. I didn’t but my NCAA championship is also this week — the Frozen Four.

NCAA hockey flies way under the radar in most of the country. Yet the Frozen Four comes amidst the best time of year for […]