An extra week between blogs, but with more books! Started and Completed Combo category, I had 3 weeks and have two books started and completed. Woohoo! Fiction first, then a memoir. Carrie Vaughan's Bannerless. This is a post-apocalyptic murder...

Completed Denise Mina's The End of the Wasp Season. Done and dusted. So what makes a good mystery anyway? There are conventions to the genre, and they always apply - even when an author is playing against the conventions, rather than adhering to...

Completed I've finished two books. Gandhi ends as the life work for which Gandhi is best known is just beginning. But that was the intent of his writing, to elaborate his "experiments with truth" and how he got to the point everyone knows about...

Completed I've finished The Memory Police More and more things disappear on the island where none of the characters have names. No wait...one character has a name, the dog is named "Don." My name. The old man is just the old man. R is R. The...

Notes I skipped another week, methinks this will henceforth a bi-weekly thing be. Also short of time, so minimal comments, but I'll pick up next week (inspite of sentence 1) with some thoughts on simplification, over-simplification, and...

Notes Yes I skipped a week, and this one is a bit late, but nothing much happened last week anyway, just continuing through three books. Completed Freedom. I finished this after an effort to get it done before the loan expired. It got better as...

Notes I have been doing some upgrades which required some tinkering with the build process for this blog, so the book notes are minimal. I have a new laptop (Lenovo Slim7) and a new NAS (Synology DS 118). The Lenovo is fine so far, and Synology...

Notes Just reading this week. Prepping for some possible site organization changes, but no changes yet (well, if you look carefully, there's a new SSL cert). Completed Chronicles from the land of the Happiest People on Earth. Things wrapped up...

Notes Gandhi's autobio is still not available (estimated wait time: 4 wks), but to keep in the groove, NY Times just published this photographic retrospective. Completed The Relentless Moon has proven to be every bit as enjoyable as the first two...

Notes One problem with reading ebooks from the library is that heftier ones can be hard to finish in the loan period. If others want to read the book, you lose access to it temporarily and face a few options: Buy the book Borrow a paper copy Put a new …