Category: Reading
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Book Review: Scarcity
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir This is a study of scarcity of resources, such as money, time, or even food. It describes the benefits of scarcity, as well as the drawbacks, both of which might be surprising. Using both empirical evidence and anecdotal examples, the authors…
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Book Review: The Drunken Botanist
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks by Amy Stewart Around the world, there is not a tree, shrub or wildflower that hasn’t been brewed or bottled, according to The Drunken Botanist, a fascinating look at the relationships between plants and alcohol. Amy Stewart explores history, horticulture, trivia, tips for growing…
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Book review: Everyday Writing
Everyday Writing: Tips and Prompts to Fit Your Regularly Scheduled Life by Midge Raymond Everyday Writing is a short e-book that promises to help people who want to write but who can never find the time. It’s divided into two parts. The first part offers tips to help readers start writing and keep writing. I…
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Are we the Eloi?
Recently, I had the pleasure of reading the long-neglected novelette, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend that you do. It will take one or two sittings to get through. I don’t recommend it so much for the story, which can border on the ridiculous, but for Wells’…
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Recommended science fiction reading for people who don’t like science fiction
I am a great fan of science fiction. I have been reading it all my life, and I read across the spectrum of the genre, from the very soft to the very hard. I enjoy it all, as long as it’s well written. But I realize that science fiction is not for everyone. Some people…
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Frankenstein: The first science fiction novel?
I had admired the perfect form of my cottagers- their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool . . . and when I was convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence…
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I recommend some great reads about immortality
Not too long ago, I wrote a post on one of my other blogs musing about our eternal quest to live longer, preferably forever. While the search for the secret to immortality probably goes back to when we first figured out the whole death thing, and once took the form of such magical interventions as…
Shannon Turlington 