Posts in the category “books”
The Old Man and the Sea
An essay on The Old Man and the Sea by Nathan Kotas.
To Have and Have Not
An essay on To Have and Have Not by David Gagne
The Old Man and the Sea
An essay on The Old Man and the Sea by A. Chira.
Reviews
Incredible! You can find the entire collection of the New York Times’ Reviews of Ernest Hemingway’s Books on the web. This is a wonderful resource. There are reviews of some recent publications about the author, as well as multiple reviews of some of his earlier books. (The Old Man and the Sea, for instance, was
Shakespeare
Somehow I stumbled upon a very useful tutorial on how to name all of Shakespeare’s plays in under a minute. link via xero79.com
In Theory
You really should read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by the late, great Douglas Adams. There’s a bit in there about Schrödinger’s cat that started me tumbling down a long road (many, many years ago) of trying to learn everything I could about physics, metaphysics, philosophy, blah blah blah. (Try to find a copy of
Late Fee
Woman returns book missing from Boston library for 80 years Last week, a young woman went to the Boston Public Library to return an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” a book that has been missing from the library for at least 80 years. A
Eddie
On eddies in the space-time continuum
Pleasure == Surprise
When it comes to having fun, the element of surprise may be more important than most people realise. A great link from Follow Me Here … And in completely unrelated news, I grabbed Dave Egger’s book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius at Target earlier today. I got a bit of a sunburn, too.