29 Books I’ve Read Since January 2024
My year of reading.
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…
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…
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…
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…
For March, I read three books: Beloved by Toni Morrison, Deacon King Kong by James McBride, and The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.
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.
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…
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…