Perhaps it’s just the mindset in the aftermath of death, but I’ve been sifting through documents and photographs in the wake of my father’s passing and it suddenly seems to…Continue readingOld Things and Other Lifetimes
In The Chronicle Review, Corey Robin wrote: ‘Any idiot can survive a crisis,’ my wife said, ‘it’s the day-to-day living that wears you out.’ I looked at her, puzzled. ‘Chekhov,’…Continue readingWho Really Said That?
Including, be still my heart. Alan Rickman reciting Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. I could listen to this man read a phone directory or a laundry list to me for an hour,…Continue readingFamous Men Reading Famous Poetry
31-Day Blog Challenge — THE END People take to blogging for different reasons at different times in their cyberlives. Sometimes the blog evolves with the person; sometimes the blog stops…Continue readingWhy do I blog?
Libraries are seen as fortresses protecting us from ignorance. In Doctor Who there ia a planet-sized library, a whole world devoted to the storage of ideas and history, which seems…Continue readingOf what use is a library?
31-Day Blog Challenge, #30 WHERE HAVE YOU TRAVELED Oh, it’s almost a Roy Batty moment, this. “I’ve… seen things you people wouldn’t believe… All those… moments… will be lost in…Continue readingMy Roy Batty moment
Some books are slightly more ‘guilty pleasure’ than ‘classic literature’, Buzzfeed says, and offers 30 examples. Well, a lot more actually since so many of them are series. The Princess…Continue readingCan ‘Guilty Pleasure’ books be awesome?
…and Still Couldn’t Get Any Respect In 1881, Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Harvard Observatory…fired his male assistant and replaced him with his maid, Williamina Fleming. So began an…Continue readingThe Women Who Mapped the Universe…