Category Archives: Leisure

I was browsing the bookshop in Heathrow, Terminal 3 (almost the only thing worth doing on Heathrow – what you might rightly think is the most horrific airport in the world until you have been to O’Hare) when that feeling … Continue reading →

What is it in the way Steven Brust writes that make it such a thrill for me to read his books? I have tried to figure this out. My best theory to date (as I have said before) is that … Continue reading →

I have wanted to read Walden for a long time but I don’t know really why. Probably a result of literature classes in high school, or maybe it was from philosophy. Lately it has been calling out to me more … Continue reading →

If you thought that a book about bicycling would by default deal with the specifics of riding a bike, or perhaps the mechanical aspects, you should read David Byrne‘s Bicycle Diaries. Indeed Byrne uses his transportation as the seed from … Continue reading →

Back in 1995-1996, during my first year as a student at Uppsala University, while over at a friend’s place doing calculus assignments conversation strayed away from the integrals to an ad in a newspapers beside us on the table. It … Continue reading →

I have fond memories of playing computer games on the Amiga 500.  Trying to learn programming all by myself. Nowadays, programming is something  I do daily, but it does not have the same appeal. Gaming I don’t do as often … Continue reading →

I read Last Chance to See almost 20 years ago. In Swedish. The translation had just arrived to the small library next to my school. As someone who just had gotten his first bite of the Hitchhiker’s, I saw the … Continue reading →

Anathem is probably the best piece of fiction I read last year (2009). I like Neal Stephenson‘s work. Read the classics Snow Crash, and Cryptonomicon some years ago, and the lack of time is the reason I have not gotten … Continue reading →

During the autumn I read the last instalment in Stephen Brust‘s Vlad Taltos series: Jhegaala. Again I put off the review due to work and life, but when I started to write it up this morning I realised that I … Continue reading →

Better late then … My book reading has declined with as I have been getting back into the never ending flood of scientific articles competing compete for my attention. Funny enough, it has not declined as much as my apparent … Continue reading →