Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Seeing and believing (“A large element of rationalist doubt certainly accompanies the decline of interest in the paranormal, driven primarily by … cultural and, latterly, technological factors. Yet underlying that doubt itself is the growing incredulity with which people evaluate anything.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- Good info for future reference: Books are less expensive on Saturdays
- Ten illuminating books about North Korea
- These tips for reading a translated novel aren’t bad but if you get much beyond classics, you aren’t likely to find more than one translation
- Evidently, the best bookstore in America is in Mississippi
- Literary beers to drink while reading (or when not)
- If you’re among those disconcerted by Amazon buying it, here are six and a dozen alternatives to Goodreads
- Congrats to the complete review on 14 years. If it isn’t among your RSS feeds, it should be.
- I’ve read six of the 15 modern classics you should read right now but only two of the 10 essential prairie novels (one of which is on both lists)
I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
David Bowie, “Changes”
