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Month: February 2013

February 17, 2013

Quoting Patricia Hodgell

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” I found this quote while browsing the web today, and my first thought was:…

February 16, 2013

‘The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer’

I finally watched this short documentary today — even though a friend of mine told me to do so around six months ago. But,…

February 15, 2013

David Attenborough’s ‘Africa’

The BBC recently finished broadcasting David Attenborough’s new nature series, ‘Africa’. I had the great chance to watch all of it near-immediately (and I…

February 14, 2013

‘Daybreak’, Battlestar Galactica

I think that ‘Daybreak’ might well be one of the finest episodes of ‘Battlestar Galactica’. Whenever I wish to watch anything of that series,…

February 13, 2013

The Works of Ryotaro Shiba

I have found Ryotaro Shiba to be an entirely compelling writer. There is just one problem: accessibility. His writings were all originally in Japanese,…

February 12, 2013

‘Manhattan In Reverse’, P. Hamilton

February 11, 2013

‘The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier’, J. Campbell

Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over? — Campbell, Jack (2012-05-20). The Lost…

February 10, 2013

‘1Q84: Books 1 and 2’, Haruki Murakami

Aside from trying to establish a convention for reviews on this blog where in native languages the surname comes first, the book by Murakami…

February 9, 2013

‘The Rise and Fall of the Aragonese-Catalan Empire 1200-1350: Volume II’, J. Lee Shneidman

As is typical lately, something went wrong when I bought this book. Namely, instead of obtaining Volumes I and II, I got only Volume…

February 8, 2013

‘Decline and Fall’, E. Waugh

Just to continue my deceptive method of mentioning the title of a book and then not commenting on the book but on an aspect…

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