Business, Culture, Writing, and Other Stuff
I finished A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr the other day. I can't get enough of Bernie Gunther and his hard boiled cynicism. In this fifth book of the series, he winds up in Argentina in 1950. It was a fascinating read as Kerr knows his history well and expertly mixes it into his narrative. [...]
What's up with the President becoming the "president"? I had this sneaky feeling that something had changed since second grade, when they wheeled a TV into my classroom and had to let it warm up for 30 minutes so I could see Carter's inauguration. I was told then if it's the President of the United [...]
I was rummaging around in Half Price Books the other day and there was a cart in there marked "Last Chance Collectibles Cheap". Ah, old books. I found a couple of treats. One was an old sci fi book I'll post about later. The second was Technical Writing: Third Edition by T. A. Rickard. It [...]
Richard K. Morgan's previous releases were all fantastic reads. Unfortunately, his latest, Thirteen in the U.S. and Black Man everywhere else, is not up to quality or the imagination of the Takeshi Kovacs novels or even the wonderfully disturbing Market Forces. Thirteen is the story of Carl Marsalis, a product of genetic engineering to produce [...]
I read The Da Vinci Code a while back and I've been thinking about it a lot lately. I think because I've heard a resurgence of discussion here and there surrounding its premise. A few weeks ago, I wrote about fiction that is nothing more than a hollow conduit for the author's research. I included [...]
I'm thinking of getting back into writing fiction. I did it back in Chicago and it was very cathartic for me. I belonged to an exceptional writing group that really encouraged each other and gave honest, but not brutal, critiques. I may start a group like that here. Writing is one of those things that [...]
Now, let's get something straight: Main Entry: in·surePronunciation: in-'shurFunction: verbInflected Forms: in·sured; in·sur·ing transitive verb : to assure against a loss by a contingent event on certain stipulated conditions or at a given rate of premium : give, take, or procure insurance on or for intransitive verb : to contract to give insurance : also [...]
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