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Your Bookshelf

September 6, 2024 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Jan 10, 2023 One thing mentioned in all the tidying up advice columns around the new year, you are unlikely to reread book from your bookshelf. To disprove that, I’m reviewing my Pynchon collection. Including some interesting book markers and some dust, so far they are holding up well. I reread the last half of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, What I Read Tagged: .V, Bleeding Edge, Bookshelf, Herbert Gold, Inherent Vice, Mason & Dixon, Pynchon, Slow Learner, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland

Books in 2023

January 10, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Last half of “Bleeding Edge” by Thomas Pynchon 01/06/2023 – Done – enjoyable. Checked out “Rising : dispatches from the new American shore” by Elizabeth Rush from the library – good account the present impact of rising seas on a few areas in the world and a cautionary tale about the future. She’s an excellent … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Climate Change, Content, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, History, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, Slavery, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, This Day in History, What I Read Tagged: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Against the day, Albert and the Whale, American Midnight, Bleeding Edge, Coal wars : the future of energy and the fate of the planet, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Rush, Herbert Gold, How Markets Fail, John Cassidy, Ka, Philip Hoare, Richard Martin, Roberto Colasso, Slow Learner, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Thomas Pynchon, Walter M. Miller Jr, White Noise

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