Month: July 2018
Beatles Jukebox
Source: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6424929116612595712 Got home earlier tonight after a long day and three hours’ worth of sleep the night before, following on the heels of three equally long days (and similarly short nights); finally caught up with three days’ worth of BookLikes posts and am now dog-tired (again). So I thought before logging off I’d just […]
Read More
A Summer Saturday Afternoon in “Balconya” …
I have a few busy days ahead of me, so I’m catching what laid back moments I can today — and what better way than with the BookLikes crowd (and entertainment courtesy of my cell phone)? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1774389/post
Read More
Helen MacInnes: Above Suspicion – Reading Progress Update: 48 of 343 Pages
Oh, wow. I’m only a few chapters in, but this is feeling mighty topical already — even more so given that it’s not historical fiction but was actually published in 1941 (note: it’s set in the summer of 1939): “‘It is really very sad for a German to find how misjudged and abused his country […]
Read More
Happy Independence Day – and, my Freedom and Future Library
Related Blog Post: Book Recs Solicited: Freedom and Future Library Reading Project: Freedom and Future Library Could there possibly be a better day on which to finally follow up on my Freedom and Future Library post? Truth be told, I’d been hoping to compile this much faster, but RL threw a major spanner in […]
Read More
Agatha Christie: They Came to Baghdad
Well, that was unexpectedly entertaining. If, like in The Secret Adversary (as well as some of the stories in Partners in Crime), Christie decides to poke fun at the genre, she can be gloriously amusing. Indeed, a major reason why I love her early Tommy and Tuppence books and the two “Bundle” Brent books (The Secret of […]
Read More