habitually probing generalist

McNeill, William Hardy. 1986. Mythistory and Other Essays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I read this book over the last 9 days and I loved it.  I have previously read one other McNeill book and have had another that I have meant to read.  The other book was The Pursuit of Power and I read [...]

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A friend who was unhappy with her previous attempts at book clubs, in-person and virtual, decided a book club where we each read whatever it is we want to read might work better. Thus, 12 Books, 12 Months was born. Here are the rules for the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge: Pick 12 titles from [...]

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[This is a copy of the review I posted at LibraryThing. Also posted at goodreads.] Running anatomy : Your illustrated guide to running strength, speed, and endurance / Joe Puleo and Dr. Patrick Milroy. Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2010 Disclosure: I got a copy of this book for free via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers [...]

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[This post title is, for me, multi-meta in that it refers to several things.] It has been a long time since I’ve been here. Part of me is sad about this fact and part of me thinks that is just fine. A lot has happened since I last wrote here: I quit my job as [...]

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In my recent Books Read in 2009 post I talked a bit about what I read last yea and a few other aspects of reading. In this post I want to touch on a few other issues, some of which are orthogonal ways of looking at what I read last year; so partially an update, [...]

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Not sure what any of this means, or why, it is, or if, of importance. Much can be seen of my book reading habits over the last 3 years at this blog [see links at end of post]. According to previous posts, it looks like another banner year in the Lindner household for book reading. [...]

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Back in March I wrote a longish post about “My personal journey into ebooks.” Things have since changed so I feel that I ought to add some commentary to those thoughts. As a caveat, these comments only pertain to me, at least as intended. They may apply to you as an individual reader but I [...]

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when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can see your soul out of sight, your deep dark secrets ebb and flow like the tide but all that i see are infinite spectrums of possibility when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can reach your soul i love the infinite [...]

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Recently I began reading ebooks. Before I address which books specifically and related issues let me put a few things on the table. Preliminaries: This post is about my experiences in the recent present and not about the future of what will or might be (even if I comment on that). I have read quite [...]

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Back on 29 January 2005 …the thoughts are broken… debuted. That link now goes to the 1st post of this blog since I migrated to WordPress in July 2006. Wow! Four years already. I haven’t been doing much here since about the middle of last year and I’d like to get back to it. But. [...]

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