Judging A Book By Its Kindle
October 01, 2019
A Brief History of Time, best seller books, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Donna Tartt, Jorden Ellenberg, Kindle, Stephen Hawking, The Goldfinch, Thomas Piketty, William Falk0 Comment
When Stephen Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time came out several years ago, someone hid money at the back of one copy to see if anyone got to the end of this complex work on cosmology. The book hit the best seller list and remained there for 4 years, but no on
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November 29, 2017
Do Not Go Gently into that Goodnight, Dylan Thomas, Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat, The wisdom of old age, What the old have yet to teach, William Falk
One of my gaggle of 3 older gentleman at the retirement center has died. (Blog 7/15/15) I feel his absence though I’d known him only a few months. He’d been a judge in his working life. His wife had died not long ago and he admitted he didn’t see much point in going on. The rema
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