So first, I loved the blog post below. The Art Deco buildings from Riga, Latvia, are enticing. Take a long look at the details. The author visited the Baltic area and takes lovely pictures. https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/human-scale-buildings-and-jungendstil/?page_id=33831 Next, I messed up a password on my phone five or six years ago and thought it didn't matter. All [...]
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Lessons for a writer
I spelled Joe Rantz's name wrong. I'm sorry! I’ve been reading my brother-in-law’s favorite book. (Or at least, one he recommends All the time.) Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (Viking, 2013) is an absolutely riveting account of the American rowing team at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany. I had to stop [...]
August! Time flies. People don’t — usually
I didn’t know that surfing was an Olympic sport until I saw a story with a fantastic picture. Surfing was included in the Olympics for the first time in Japan in 2020, and the competition this year is taking place in French Polynesia. It is a judged sport, as opposed to racing or throwing things [...]
Reading weirdness
After some intense days last week, I wanted words to flow past my eyes. That often means Project Gutenberg, because if I’m going to be undiscriminating about what I read, it’s best if I don’t also pay money for it. One category on the Project Gutenberg website is the latest uploads. In January, 2024, that [...]
Am I going to like Russian short stories this time?
I’ve been reading a book about Russian short stories called A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders. I can’t stand Russian writing in general, though I recognize that that is a highly personal taste. That is, I recognize that others have declared lots of Russian authors to be important and great [...]
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