Noir cyberpunk science fiction is Richard K. Morgan’s speciality and he’s damn good at it. This stand-alone work is the best of his I’ve read so far. Published in 2007 as Black Man in the UK and Thirteen in North America, the book won the Arthur...
“Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.”
Well, maybe just the weekends. That said, we do spend most of our adult waking hours working and many of us continue to work into our mid-60’s. But there are those...
I should be so lucky as Tsukuru. Things do get better. Basking in the warm glow of this book, it’s interesting to reflect on how I came across it.
There was the Nobel prize news which vectored across my attention: Haruki Murakami, once again...
The tech company where I’d landed not long out of school was all about innovating. We felt like trailblazers and in many ways were just that. A couple of years in, one of the original founders started a new project for a solution in an emerging...
I guess I was looking for something harder-edged. Actually, that's a pretty safe bet. The best politico-econo-philosophy books I've read in recent years have all been more confrontational. I liked John Dean's book on the mind of conservative...
Looking for an engaging cop thriller to pass a few hours? J.D. Barker's The Fourth Monkey is a great place to land. The story revolves around a serial killer who's been plaguing Chicago for some 5 years. No one's been able to crack the case. T...
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People are private animals We are all multidimensional individuals. “Who are you?” is an impossible question for anyone to answer fully, so our answers are always partial. When asked, we keep parts of our selves to ourselves. We expose differe...
Beyond privacy, WriterShelf offers unique and practical advantages when for sharing messages with the world. In everyday life, we adjust our voice to fit the particular situation we’re in. We speak differently with friends, family and workmates...
Not many of us write kiss-and-tell memoirs. But we all just might have the impulse. Life is full of stories and sharing those stories is something we seem bred to do. Maybe your storytelling is mainly around the water-cooler, the dinner table ...
The NBA does continue to roll on. The finals attracted the most viewers in nearly 20 years. Then the draft. Now the free-agent market. For the Warriors, things have been going well. With Kevin Durant reportedly ready to sign and Steph Curr...
One could say that smart Californians look north. And the Warriors are proving themselves to be pretty darn smart. It didn't seem like the Dubs would have much to say at the draft this year but that was clearly my failure of imagination. The Wa...
Who says that sourdough and oil don't mix? OK. Silly question, but tons of sourdough purists hold that straying from the orthodoxy of flour, starter, salt and water inevitably heads down the wrong path. And that's been my thinking for a good ...
Who hasn't heard of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale? Even in passing, it's hard not to pick up the vibe: Dark. Depressing. Sad. Important. Landmark. Something that you really should read. It's on all the lists. From a distance, the book...
This was my second time through this book. The first time I listened to it. It was one of my first audiobooks after my library started lending the format. While they say that listening to books is basically the same as reading them, it does take...
In a Real News Network report Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff, Lawrence Wilkerson makes good points about who will get hurt by reversing the changes in Cuba relations. Besides the larger money interests who want to build hotels, Wilkerso...
And it looks like these trophies won't be darkening the door at the WH this year.
16 and 0 in the playoffs would have been sweet. But giving up a game on the Cav's home court - something for their fans - isn't the end of the world. And the flip side is that the Dubs will be able to claim this year's trophy in front of their f...
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