It just occurred to me that I did not write up my reading highlights for 2021. I finished the year having read a total of 56 books.
As usual, sci-fi dominated my reading last year. Stand outs include:
Learned something interesting today. There is a word list text file on my Linux Mint computer that contains over 100,000 English words. In fact, there are several word files for some common languages. Your word files may vary based on your Linux distribution or locale. The files are in …
2020 was a banner year for reading since I spent a lot more time at home. I ended with a personal high of 84 books read during the year.
I am usually a big reader of science fiction. Not last year. My favorite sci-fi of the year was the Tao …
For the first time, I ran into a quote where the phrase "around the turn of the century" was referring to the year 2000 instead of 1900. Up until now, I have always associated that phrase with the change from the 1800's to the 1900's.
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Thoughts on the last year of book reading. Read more to find out the highlights for 2019.
I've just finished reading "The Queen's Gambit" by Walter Tevis. This novel was first published in 1983. I have not read any of his other works previously.
This is the best book that I have read in a very long time. I'm not here to review it, or give out …
Thoughts on the last year of book reading. Read more to find out the highlights for 2018.
If you have a collection of eBooks, you may already be a Calibre user. Calibre is a powerful ebook manager that helps organize your collection of electronic books. It supports every major ebook format that I have ever thrown at it. If you have any ebook or document collection that …
2017 was a another good reading year. I discovered several new authors and book series that kept me entertained as I completed 64 books during the year. It seemed to be a year of reading book series as you will see in some of the selections below. A part of …
I am a decent reader with one or two books going all the time. I have a wish list of about 400 books that I keep an eye out for when checking the library web site, gutenburg.org, etc. Most of them are classics or represent a highly rated story …