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 should probably write up a bit on the whole book series as this is the [...]
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 lack of writing even short reviews here. Sad. I have, in fact, been able to [...]
I have unfortunately not had the time or discipline to write any reviews of books I finished reading the last few months. A bit late now to remember all the details, however I thought I would mention some of them just to keep count. First out, we have What are you optimistic about? edited by [...]
I picked up The Red Notebook in a very stylish bookshop in Innsbruck. The store was located a bit off the main street, and had huge night black shelves with bright green details. Quite designed, I think it was called Wiederin. In any case, I bought some books in German, but then they also had [...]
In his foreword to my S.F. Masterworks editon of Last and First of Men by Olaf Stapledon, Gregory Benford suggests that the reader skip the first four parts of the book and start reading at The fall of The First Men. The reason is that the first four chapters are documenting the “history” of the [...]
So finally I got time to finish both the book and the review. Lot of things been going on the last few months. Travels ,holidays, and work. In any case, after reading A devil’s chaplain by Dawkins, and also Daniel C. Dennet’s Breaking the spell I decided that it was well time for me to [...]
Someone dear to me noted that I read mostly non-fiction. Guilty. But in my defence I want to say that I do read fiction from time to time. (Although I haven’t reviewed any here I guess.) It sort of goes in periods. Now and then I really want a good story, but at other times [...]
I have this, maybe a bit snobbish, idea that I prefer to read a book in its original language, rather than a translation. Now, I barely just know three languages well enough to read a proper book. One of these languages is German however, and when I first picked up A Little History of The [...]
I have to admit that it was the cover of this book that sold it to me. Saw it out of the corner of my eye when I was browsing in Akademiska bokhandeln (the Academic book shop) in Helsinki a while ago. [Love that bookshop for its size and character. Three stories high, easy to [...]
The art of travel… a good name for a book; as well as a worthy subject. I am not thinking about what to pack, the best way of getting a cheap deal at a bazaar, finding the unspoiled backpacker paradise in south east Asia, or whatever else your standard travel magazine may have advertised on [...]
