Category Archives: Bookses

Reliving Your Life Over and Over Endlessly

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

Reddit, or somewhere, told me that I had to read The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North. So I downloaded a copy to my Kindle. And it stayed there for a while. Somewhere along the way, I … Continue reading →

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A 1904 Odyssey

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

For over three months now, I’ve been reading Ulysses by James Joyce. I gave it four out of five stars. It could use a good editor. It’s a fascinating book, but there’s just too much of it. The first three … Continue reading →

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A Goodby That Was Pretty Long

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

I once found Dashell Hammett’s Maltese Falcon in a used book store for a quarter. It was an old paperback, apparently printed to be distributed to soldiers during World War II. It was a thin book and I read it … Continue reading →

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My Darling Frankenstein

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

This was not the book that I’d thought it’d be 40 pages in, I was thinking that there’d been some error and I was reading the wrong book. There is no Dr Frankenstein, no monster, no big frights, no hordes … Continue reading →

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Magarita Master

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

Amazon has been telling me to buy this book for ages, much as it did with Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Then I noticed folks on Reddit recomending it, although to be honest folks on Reddit end up recomending everything to … Continue reading →

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Cowboy Books

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

I was at my brothers one day, and his TV was on as always. It was John Wayne’s next-to-last movie ( I think) The Cowboys. There was the movie back in the 70s, and a brief TV show. Some of … Continue reading →

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Lincoln vs The Bardo

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

Fancy, award-winning books can be very hit-or-miss. Sometimes they win the award for the wrong thing, like because the story is timely or the storytelling is stylized. Sometimes a book wins an award because another one didn’t, and somebody thought … Continue reading →

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Hidden Wind Up Camera Bird Chronicle

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Lyle Verbilion

   +     =  3 Several years ago Amazon suggested that I buy a book called The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I obediently ordered it. Put it on the shelf, for years. Somewhere else along the way,  Amazon suggested that I … Continue reading →

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Priming the Intuition Pumps

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Lyle Verbilion

I had an interesting experience when I read Daniel C. Dennetts’ book Consciousness Explained. I couldn’t figure out what it was talking about. I’d read a chapter, and have no idea what he was getting at. Mainly, it seemed to … Continue reading →

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John Dies Full of Spiders

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Lyle Verbilion

While my wife was away one recent week, I started watching all the scary movies that she doesn’t like to see. I gave up on Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. It just didn’t grab me like I’d hoped. I almost … Continue reading →

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