Doubt the Experts

While, at this point, Donald Trump is one of my least favorite topics, I feel that I must at least make a comment on the recent turn of even...

I made a reasonable effort to read Buddenbrooks , but did not enjoy it at all, and, under my existing policy of not finishing books that I d...

On October 17, the leaves were at a peak here, and that night there was a freeze; since then the leaves have been turning brown and are fall...

I occasionally like to rewatch Childish Gambino's  This is America  video. I've decided that the best part is the choreography by Sh...

  When Bob Dylan was a radical.

We seem to be having a slightly cooler than usual fall this year. September was almost like previous Octobers, and the temperature was in th...

Following John P.'s recommendation, I just read this short novel by Beppe Fenoglio. The subject is similar to Italo Calvino's in  Th...

I decided to read this short 1947 novel by Italo Calvino for a variety of reasons. The main one was that I had neglected Italy in my fiction...

Following my hunter-gatherer instincts, I am consciously and unconsciously preparing for the arrival of winter. Technically, it's a few ...

In my post on this topic last year, I wrote that a person whom I knew made me think that the use of new technology may have caused her to un...

While the types of posts that I've been making on this blog haven't changed that much, other than adding more videos and music recen...

I decided to update my original post of September 30, 2015, because I'm giving up on that activity now. I think that many of my former a...

Since my last post, I've been engaging in one of my masochistic acts of forcing myself to read something that I'm not enjoying, and ...

I haven't read a long novel in over ten years and will shortly be starting The Song of Stork and Dromedary , by Anjet Daanje. It was rec...

I just read Neanderthals: Fact, Fiction, and Wishful Thinking , by Jeffrey H. Schwartz. The title intrigued me, because I have been wonderin...

  Contra dancing  in New Hampshire in 1967.

I haven't been reading anything recently but will start next week when my new book arrives. The atmosphere here is the distinct "la...

This has been somewhat of an unusual summer for me. I was already getting a little tired of my regular hikes, and then there was a lot of ra...

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...