Good news to everyone who has been waiting for the third Kit Melbourne novel to finally be available in paperback! I just got my proof today, and it looks good, so I’ve stuck a fork in it and called it done. It won’t be available on Amazon and other channels for at least a few …
Jul 03
Book Review: Trash Sex Magic
Trash, Sex, Magic by Jennifer Stevenson I bought this book primarily because of the publisher; they’ve done some other novels by Sean Stewart that I liked very much. I was hoping (in vain, I thought) that this novel would have the same heart and detail as Stewart’s books. I knew it was crazy to think …
Jun 19
Book Review: The Believing Brain
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer Even though this book is about beliefs, it has a huge whopping load of science, especially neurology and psychology. It doesn’t address specific beliefs so much as describe how people form conjectures …
Jun 04
Book Review: 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense
13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks I got this as an audiobook, and I almost stopped listening to it because it begins with astrology and goes straight to quantum physics–my two least favorite fields of science. My friend advised me to continue listening, and …