Category Archives: Reading

We spent an hour in Powell’s. The place was huge — four floors, nine rooms, floor to ceiling bookcases in each. They had one aisle about 50 feet long just on bird books. Used books and new books were mixed … Continue reading →

Where did Nevil Shute get the name for the device created to break through the Atlantic Wall? It seems that a British actor named Charles Macklin, back in 1755, was bragging that he could recite any paragraph from memory after … Continue reading →

Last night, I finished reading A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute. I browsed around on the Internet to see if the book was made into a movie. (It was — two movies, actually.) Anyway, that lead me to this … Continue reading →

I’m currently reading In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson. On the first page, I read this: Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the … Continue reading →

At some point, in 1992 or so, I decided to start reading classics. This inevitably led to a list. I started with a list my sister picked up from a library, but I quickly became disenchanted with many of the … Continue reading →