Category Archives: Books and Literature

Where did Nevil Shute get the name for his 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 →

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 →