The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 47,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 17 sold-out performances for that many [...]
Archive for December, 2011
31 Dec
Book Review: The lost art of walking by Geoff Nicholson
Author: Geoff Nicholson Title: The lost art of walking : the history, science, philosophy, and literature of pedestrianism Publication Info: New York : Riverhead Books, 2008 ISBN: 9781594489983 Summary/Review: Geoff Nicholson takes on the quotidian topic of walking, something just about everyone can do, although there who some who can who fail to exercise the ability regularly. [...]
31 Dec
Book Review: Maphead by Ken Jennings
Author: Ken Jennings Title: Maphead : charting the wide, weird world of geography Publication Info: New York : Scribner, c2011. ISBN: 9781439167175 Summary/Review: Ken Jennings is a person I like merely because he became a celebrity by being intelligent. Now I know he shares a common passion for maps. As a child I used to lay out [...]
31 Dec
Book Review: All Clear by Connie Willis
Author: Connie Willis Title: All Clear Publication Info: New York : Spectra, 2010. ISBN: 9780553807677 Previous Works By Same Author: Lincoln’s Dreams Doomsday Book Bellwether To Say Nothing of the Dog Passage Inside Job Blackout Summary/Review: As noted in my review of Blackout this book is less of a sequel and more of a direct continuation of one lengthy work about three [...]
31 Dec
Book Review: Blackout by Connie Willis
Author: Connie Willis Title: Blackout Publication Info: ISBN: 9780553803198 Previous Works By Same Author: Lincoln’s Dreams Doomsday Book Bellwether To Say Nothing of the Dog Passage Inside Job Summary/Review: Connie Willis is one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy authors and I particularly enjoy her take on time travel fiction in works such as Doomsday Book and To Say [...]
31 Dec
Book Review: Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg
Author: Simon Pegg Title: Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy’s Journey to Becoming a Big Kid Publication Info: Gotham (2011) ISBN: 9781592406814 Summary/Review: Pegg’s autobiography is another celebrity biography (an unusual genre for me although I read two in the same month) that thankfully transcends the genre. Pegg is witty and humorous as a reflects on [...]
30 Dec
Book Review: Dancing in the Dark by Morris Dickstein
Author: Morris Dickstein Title: Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression Publication Info: Blackstone Audio, Inc. (2010) ASIN: B004227WFS Summary/Review: I’ll start off by saying that this wasn’t this book I was expecting as I was looking for more of the experience of everyday life in the Great Depression. Upon reflection that would probably be [...]
28 Dec
The 41st Annual Christmas Revels
This afternoon my family and I took in the annual performance of The Christmas Revels at Sanders Theater in Cambridge. The Revels is a family tradition and this marks the tenth Christmas Revels production I’ve attended (including a Washington Revels performance in 1995 and performing as a cast member in the 2009 Christmas Revels). This [...]
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