I needed a new audiobook. I can’t concentrate to read a real book. Browsing the public library offerings, I decided that I wanted to find something in the humor category. The author Daniel Handler caught my eye. Handler is also known as Lemony Snicket of the A Series of Unfortunate Events series of which I […]
I was curious to see how Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Journey would be interpreted and updated in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Here are some brief musings: This program is on Fox network so it has a wider distribution than the original program which was a SoCal PBS offering. Since it’s on
Emma is my 5th of 6 Austen novels. I will take a break after this before I wrap up my reading goal for the year. I wish I had read this in order of Austen writing them. Emma was written between Mansfield Park and Persuasion. I think I would have enjoyed Persuasion better if I
Daughter came home a couple weeks ago announcing that she had been asked to prom. The name of the girl who invited her was only vaguely familiar and someone I’ve never met or even seen a picture of. Because she was in the throes of 3 other events, she could not compute what it meant
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From Seth Grahame-Smith, the author who brought you Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a silly look at that very un-silly Jane Austen novel. I think Grahame-Smith was cheating a bit in “writing” this book since 90% of it was the original Austen verbiage. It was the exact same story with
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