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• Books, Writing

  Into the clouds

  01.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been unable to interest any literary agents in my novel Anti-X.  Perhaps I just don’t know how to write query letters, or else the book is just not right for anyone to represent.  I have had a couple of requests for sample chapters, but nothing more beyond that.  So I am putting the […]

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  Last Books of the Year

  12.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X & Alex Haley Oishinbo A la Carte: Ramen & Gyoza Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed Michael Kodas One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing Katherine Dunn Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore First Peoples: A […]

• Books, Technology

  Pfui

  11.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  So for my recent birthday, Mrs The Fyd got me a great present: an iPhone.  This very cleverly turned out to be good for her, since naturally she got one too.  Anyway this thing is absorbing, given the number of apps available.  While browsing through them the other day I saw that there was a […]

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  Books

  10.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  More books read recently: The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois Ancient Greece Sarah Pomeroy et al. To Make Our World Anew, Vol. II: A History of African Americans from 1880 ed. Robin D. G. Kelley & […]

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  Books

  09.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Matter by Iain M. Banks Poison Sleep by T.A. Pratt The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Tick-Tock by Dean Koontz To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans to 1880 ed. Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis Race And Revolution by Gary B. Nash

• Books

  Recent Books

  06.28.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Selected Short Stories William Faulkner Watchmen Allan Moore & Dave Gibbons Topics in Contemporary Mathematics Ignacio Bello et al Shadow Divers Robert Kurson The Assassins Joyce Carol Oates The Darkest Evening of the Year Dean Koontz The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service Andrew Meier The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem The Decline […]

• Books

  What I done read since last time

  04.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sawyer’s Internal Auditing: the Practice of Modern Internal Auditing, 5th ed. by Lawrence B. Sawyer, et al.  (I cannot praise too highly this book, and recommend each and every single one of its page to you, yes, all 1,446 of them) Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to your Tank by Lisa Margonnelli Death’s Acre: […]

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  Now with extra Rhys

  01.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recent books read: After Leaving Mr. McKenzie, Jean Rhys Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl, John Colapinto Western Civilization: Volume 1: to 1715, Jackson J. Spielvogel Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester Flat Earth: The […]

• Books

  Nice in Nice

  01.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The new gadget below left, showing a random sampling from the Library Thing database of the books that I and Mrs The Fyd own, makes me want to visit my own blog just to see what books pop up.   Which, since I could just sit in the basement and randomly pull books off shelves for the […]

• Books

  Words from the Exit Wound

  12.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Serpent’s Reach, C.J. Cherryh Shooting at Midnight, Greg Rucka The Great Outdoor Fight, Chris Onstad Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys Quartet, Jean Rhys Waiter Rant, Steve Dublanica(*) Last Evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolaño The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks   (*)Heartily recommended for fellow veterans of the restaurant business.  I recognized a lot of the […]

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