What does the locator on the image of the Washington Mall mean? It means I’m a hero, that’s what! The image is from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear and locates where I was standing. And this really is about me:
Cheap way to keep the home page current
Projects I recently backed
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(so I’d love it if you did, too!)
Currently on the nightstand
I’m usually in the middle of one or two books at a time; these are the most likely candidates being read now or next! Over the holidays, friends and family gifted me 4670 pages of books. Then my birthday came along and I’ve got 6 more books on top of that…
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things – Patrick Rothfuss
- The Expanse books – James S A Corey (I’m on book 3 so far…)
- Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of the Moody Blues Volume 1 (1965-1979) – Marc Cushman
- The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films – Doug Adams
- Who Owns the Future? – Jaron Lanier
- A World Lit Only By Fire – William Manchester
- Cooked – Michael Pollan
Recently finished! (And moved to another shelf)
- The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
- Rendezvous With Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
- The Singularity Trap – Dennis E. Taylor
- The Drums of Autumn – Diana Gabaldon
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – Dennis E. Taylor
- The Gunslinger – Stephen King
- The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
- Beowulf – translation by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Death’s End – Cixin Liu
- Visible Learning – John Hattie
- Raising Steam – Terry Pratchett
- A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches – Tyler Kord
- The Complete Fiction – H.P. Lovecraft
- Good Omens – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- Arkwright – Allen Steele
- Elfstones of Shannara – Terry Brooks
- World War Z – Max Brooks
- Thud! – Terry Pratchett
- The Foundation Trilogy – Isaac Asimov
- Seveneves – Neal Stephenson