I will admit: in order to make my slog through Stephen King’s Under the Dome, I headed over to Wikipedia for a quick synopsis. I was, after all, just confirming what I already knew to be true about the book’s ending. The book was taking a long time in getting there, so I just hurried [...]
I didn’t set resolutions for 2010, but there are a few things I want to improve: I just didn’t feel the need to enumerate them at the New Year. I made a list which I titled “Things I Want To Do Better” in my notebook, and it included exercising smarter, writing, reading more, and searching [...]
If you look back through my book list posts, Fagles’ translation of The Aeneid makes its first appearance in the October 26, 2007 entry: I mention that it’s in my cart at Barnes & Noble. I then mention that I’m reading it on December 4 of that same year. It stays on the Currently Reading [...]
While reading Jasper Fforde’s complete oeuvre in 2008, the back of the books contained an advertisement for Fforde’s upcoming novel, Shades of Grey. I was geeked, of course: as you may remember, Ffrode was my Best Discovery of 2008 and The Eyre Affair won Best Book of 2008. I find his work simply delightful: [...]
I really like words. I really like digging into words and knowing their meanings, origins, and future directions. Probably in an pretty nice world, I’d be a lexicographer, researching and defining words in quiet camaraderie with my fellow lexicographers. I’d be assigned a portion of the dictionary, then research and define my way through said [...]
