A Quick Book Review
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body By Neil Shubin (Pantheon, 2008). Neil Shubin is the Provost of the Field Museum in Chicago, and is a professor of anatomy...
View ArticleIn Which The Badger Tries Valiantly To Read The Lost Symbol
I read Dan Brown's first four novels in relatively quick succession. They were all at least moderately engaging despite their flaws, and The Da Vinci Code is one of three novels that I have read at...
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Book Review – The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
A few weeks ago, a copy of The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum ended up in my grubby little paws. Blum, who describes herself as a lapsed chemist, has put together a fascinating book that is equal...
View ArticleDisclosure and Some Background
I'm working on a book review right now that's a bit of a departure from the sort of things that I usually read. I'll refrain from too many details just yet, but just to keep everything above-board,...
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Book Review – Mary Mae And The Gospel Truth by Sandra Dutton
(NOTE: Updated to fix a bad tag.) What happens when a precocious ten-year-old from a conservative religious family encounters fossils in her school yard and starts asking questions? Sandra Dutton...
View ArticleNew Book Time – Forged by Bart Ehrman
I just received my copy of Bart Ehrman's new book, Forged: Writing in the Name of God - Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are. This isn't going to be a full review - while I hope to...
View ArticleMini Book Review: The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, Translated by Reg...
Well, first order of business: I haven't died since my last post. In August. Of last year. Nor was I raptured in October. Harold Camping was wrong again. I have, however, been a victim of a busy...
View Article2012 Books, and a Recommendation
So I've been trying to read a lot this year. So far, I've been fairly successful. In an effort to fill space before my Super Mega Awesome Cinco De Mayo movie review, I'll summarize the books that I've...
View ArticleBook Review – Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment by...
Savage Pastimes is an interesting little book that my esteemed associate, Skippy, loaned me recently. Written by Harold Schechter, whose body of work consists mostly of books about serial killers,...
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