Welcome back, everyone! It’s the middle of the week, which means now we get to start thinking about Friday. Let’s be honest, though, there are some weeks when I start thinking about Friday on Sunday evening. I’m already seeing Christmas stuff despite Halloween still being two weeks away. I know there’s the recurring joke that Christmas decor is getting put out earlier and earlier and I think that’s pretty accurate. This year, I’m pretty meh … Continue reading Links: Romance Cove...| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
–Alexander Larman in The Spectator reviews two new books about religion: Twelve Churches by Fergus Butler-Gallie and God, the Science, the Evidence by Miles-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnaissies. The article opens with a brief reference to the religious writings of two British authors:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
Welcome back! This week has given me the first hint of fall. I love a crispy morning. We’re also in the middle of getting a new porch since the old one had only a couple years left anyway. I can’t wait to enjoy a coffee on the new one, wrapped in a big ol’ blanket. Aside from that, I’ve been fully on the Hades II train. Anyone else with me? … Libro.fm is hosting a “read-in” … Continue reading Links: Emily Henry, Banned Books, & More→| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
I have a great deal of respect for science fiction author William Gibson and what he contributed to the art but can’t honestly say I love his writing. Gibson and Bruce Sterling are widely viewed as the fathers of cyberpunk (hence the respect), but I find their writing sometimes opaque and challenging (though maybe that’s […]| Logos con carne
While contemporary in its subject matter, the novel offers the good old-fashioned pleasures of prose and plot. Its madcap antics and Waughian wit and wordplay are a joy, and a breath of fresh air in a landscape of contemporary literary fiction that tends to favour either affectlessness or earnestness. Despite Mount having less direct experience with hedge funds than politics, the details of the financial world in The Pentecost Papers, which he credits to multiple sources in the acknowledgemen...| The Evelyn Waugh Society
As much as I love reading, some things in books (or on their covers) can be extremely annoying, and frankly unnecessary. While I won’t completely drop the book in most cases, I’m definitely less inclined… More| Sunlit Tomes
I typically don’t love adaptations, but there are a few I am excited to watch!! While I am late to some of these, I’m still very excited to finally give them a try!! Heartstopper I… More| Sunlit Tomes
At one point in the 1990s, turning a video game into a movie seemed like an easy cash grab for... The post Ready Player One? Stories That Started on Game Consoles appeared first on The Script Lab.| The Script Lab
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a… The post How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure first appeared on Deep Sea News.| Deep Sea News
I have only seen a hydrothermal vent once, during Dive 73 aboard the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Doc Ricketts. Unlike many deep-sea biologists, I… The post A Journey to the Hottest Place on Earth: Hydrothermal Vents and the Resilient Pompeii Worm first appeared on Deep Sea News.| Deep Sea News
The ROV Global Explorer reaches bottom at around 9:01 am, nearly 3.5 kilometers deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The 1.5-ton machine flies nimbly through a shallow valley before rising up and over a peak. As we descend the other side, we hold our breath in anticipation. Will we see our target? Out of the| Deep Sea News | All the news on the Earth's largest environment.
Over the last few weeks, on Amazon Prime, I’ve watched all 30 episodes of the first season of Three-Body, the Chinese television adaptation of the 2006 science fiction novel The Three-Body Pr…| Logos con carne
A volunteer in the Northern Star Council (Minnesota and Wisconsin) has developed a series of three training presentations on advancement for Cubs and Scouts BSA with special needs or disabilities (…| Able Scouts
I’ve written many times here about my issues with TV and movie adaptations of existing stories. Short synopsis: I usually find them lacking. Especially the more recent attempts. Extra especia…| Logos con carne
The top-rated audio series returns with stories adapted from the XPRIZE anthology Seat 14C, following the lives of hapless air travelers who find themselves transported to a world twenty years in their future.| William Shunn
