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How often do you recommend books to others, and who do you recommend them to? Do you only recommend books to your “reading friends” or to anyone you think might find the book interesting? What does it take for a book to make it to your ‘recommendation’ list? Other than what people may gather […] A lazy week personally and in the blogosphere as a whole leads to a very abbreviated edition this weekend. Bulletin Board My personal best of the year posts in music and books will be up probably Tuesday and Wednesday Bookish Linkage Hmmmm, library porn. Nonbookish Linkage Somehow I missed this when the issue was released […] What are the most “wintery” books you can think of? The ones that almost embody Winter? The two books that come to mind are about as diametrical as you can get. Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s description of the conditions in which the gulag prisoners work in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich has stayed […] Another Christmas, another posting of my traditional Christmas greeting. Although I call it traditional, my greeting is not traditional in the standard sense of the word. But you gotta realize this is coming from someone whose kids remember John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” as being the Christmas song they heard most often at […] This time of year has always been one of transitions, even if it’s just an effort to make a New Year’s resolution. The jazz world saw a transition on December 26, 1967. That was the day the Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbanded. Since the quartet had been founded in 1951, there were two mainstays: Brubeck, […] |
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