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Reading Impressions: Two biographies

Although I’ve only read three books this year, my early effort at spontaneity over planning in my reading selections means two of those books were biographies of two women at about the same time. They resulted in impressions as different as the subjects.

On the disappointing end of the spectrum was Eva Braun: Life with […]

My nonresolutions

The only New Year’s resolution I think I’ve ever kept is the last one I made. Years ago, I resolved to not make New Year’s resolutions and have been very good at it since. (I don’t remember if that was before or after I decided that each Lenten season I would give up giving up […]

Weekend Edition: 1-7

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Why you don’t really have free will (“Our brains are simply meat computers that, like real computers, are programmed by our genes and experiences to convert an array of inputs into a predetermined output.”) (via)

The death of the celebrity memoir (“If we really wanted these annoying figures […]

Friday Follies 3.21

Lawsuit To Determine If Dogs Have Souls (via)

Top 5 Ice Cream Truck Crimes of 2011

Your choice: The 5 Most Outrageous Lawsuits of 2011 or The 8 craziest lawsuits of 2011

Man Killed By Train Sued After His Flying Body Parts Injured Woman

But a headline just doesn’t do this one justice: A Canadian […]

January Bibliolust

It’s the time of year where we look both forward and back. In looking back, I am surprised at how closely the percentage of Bibliolust books read last year is to the all time percentage. I doubt there’s any significance but I do find it interesting. Looking forward means half the books this month actually […]