Doubt the Experts

I've reached the end of the book and will sum up the final events. Charlotte spent some time working on her last novel, Villette , in Ha...

I'm up to 1851 and am gradually cruising toward the end of the book. With the publication of Shirley , Charlotte began a new role as a m...

After all of this incredibly slow buildup, nearly every important event in the Brontë family history falls into a highly compressed period, ...

For a change of pace, I thought I'd post  this song  by Rick James. Headphones recommended. Things didn't end well for Rick James, b...

As of 1844, Charlotte made inquiries regarding the setting up of a small school at the parsonage. No one in the family was enthusiastic abou...

 As usual, I've been working on my small projects very gradually. The wood-chewing squirrel problem is mostly solved. My theory had been...

I'm a supporter of the  robot pride movement .

I'm still moving along very slowly in the book and am about halfway through it at this point. It took one-hundred pages to cover 1840-18...

Since I hardly read any fiction now but have still been watching films, I decided to write about films today. When I was growing up, I regul...

I'm only up to 1840, when the Brontë children were in their twenties. There is too much information to sum everything up neatly. Charlot...

I've been enjoying The Brontës  and will read it intermittently until I finish it. At the moment, biographies are my favorite reading, w...

Because there has been a revival of the subject of human immortality recently, I thought I'd write a little about that today. I've d...

In 1825, at the time of Maria and Elizabeth's illness at the Cowan Bridge School, besides Charlotte, Emily had just started. Patrick wit...

As you may have guessed, I'm not in reading mode and am moving through this book at a snail's pace. Actually, I don't want to ru...

I've embarked on this extremely long biography by Julie Barker. It is going to take me a lot of time to finish, so I may end up making p...

As in most years, I don't feel much like reading in the spring. My little tomato bed is ready for planting, and my three tomato plants a...

I'm all caught up on my domestic tasks and am pretty much just watching the grass grow now. Three tomato seedlings are doing well inside...

The remainder of the book was not particularly stunning to me, though I do think that the backgrounds and views of Brooks and Agosta are amo...

The middle section of the book covers human history over the last 11,500 years. This is an immense timeframe as far as humans are concerned,...

I've been reading this 2024 book by Daniel R. Brooks and Salvatore J. Agosta. Because it covers themes that I've discussed on this b...

I have found a book that I think is worth reading but am not far along enough in it to say much about it yet. In the meantime, I didn't ...

I seem to have reached another drought in finding books that I want to read. I started on a Vivian Maier biography but am underwhelmed and a...

Summer school , and jumbo shrimp , of course. Friendly fire , famous poet , common sense , and, until very recently, safe sex . Blind date ,...