AI Science Fiction Book Covers: Stranger in a Strange Land
If you click on the Craiyon-generated image, the larger view looks creepier. Today's image is of Heinlein's classic, Stranger in a Strange Land, though I wonder how the AI pulls…
AI Science Fiction Book Covers: The Martian Chronicles
I love The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. On the left, we have the 1984 paperback cover. On the right, we have Craiyon AI's interpretation. Events in the chronicle include…
AI Science Fiction Book Covers: The Day of the Triffids
What happens when you run a science fiction book title through Craiyon AI? Today we took John Wyndam's novel The Day of the Triffids and get this scary interpretation. The…
Inventing Anna (Ellen) Olenska
I started reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton two days ago. Introduced to Ellen Olenska who reenters New York society from a scandal in Europe, I thought of…
March 2021 Books
For March, I read three books: Beloved by Toni Morrison, Deacon King Kong by James McBride, and The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.
Educated by Tara Westover Quote
On reading Les Misérables: "Napolean felt no more real to me than Jean Valjean. I had never heard of either." p. 150 Educated by Tara Westover.
A Few Thoughts on Educated
I'm enjoying Educated by Tara Westover, but it's hard to read. Should the children have been taken away from her parents? Yes. The kids were often endangered and it's hard…
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata‘s Convenience Store Woman is a novella with such minimal plotting it almost reads like a character-study. The narrator is a thirty-five-year-old, single woman who works part-time at a…
Drop Into Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — Scrivler
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a novel of beauty and perseverance, which shows an unflinching view of Japan’s treatment of Koreans, both during the occupation of Korea and after…