It's all good all around :D


Thanks everyone.

The Bonanza King - Gregory Couch. Excellent history of the Comstock Lode and John MacKaye, one of it successful miners, who later ran a transatlantic cable to compete with Jay Gould's monopoly.

Finally finished "Cyber Rights". It's a slow read which makes it long, but it covers a number of landmark cases and issues involving the constitution and the internet in the 1990s. Interesting read, despite the legal and technical details from the internet over 20 years ago.


I'll be finishing up "Let's Pretend This Never happened" by Jenny Lawson before diving in to Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.

Jack Carr - The Terminal List. Good debut thriller

Looking back at my last post...I'm still working through Lawson's book, finished Half Blood Prince between Thursday and Sunday. Party on.

finished Caspar Henderson's The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: a 21st Century bestiary. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/...s-is-more.html

Are we critiquing writing here? Did I miss something? I kinda want in.

I posted a link to a site with really old short stories I wrote. That's all. Critique away.

Finished both Lawson's book and what I had left of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this weekend.


At this point, I have no books started, but plan to start the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy anthology next.

The Apache Wars - Paul Andrew Hutton.


One of the most depressing books I've ever read, but a rewarding history and very readable.

slowly resumed moby dick cuz i got sidetracked

oh yes im still on land. so many old words and meanings to learn it’s a bit of a slog, but i don’t mind. the kindle is reeeeeeeally useful in this regard, loading a dictionary with a tap of the finger and it explains to me this or that piece of clothing, another shoots off to wikipedia and i read about the uses of whale oil, etc.—stuff that was obvious 200 years ago but now isnt.

i don’t miss paper books... well as precious objects yes, but for reading, ebooks have deeper veins.

who here is old enough to have dreamed of owning the OED? the one that took a whole wall was unattainable, but what about the two volume one with the magnifying glass? ha ha ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. o man...

Nick Cave: Mercy on Me

Graphic novel. (Not really a novel tho) Blends biography with fantastic elements, such as Cave song characters confronting their creator. Novel stuff.

“Supergods: What masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants and a sun god from Smallville can teach us about being human” by Grant Morrison



It’s good!

Finished up Carl Zimmer's She Has Her Mother's Laugh: the Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/...-are-more.html

An update for my status, I'm like 4-5 chapters into "Mostly Harmless", the last in the anthology. Granted this is Douglas Adams, don't gauge your progress in his books by chapter, some are literally one page or even one paragraph long.

Antigone, by Oedipus. I'm reading it for Lit class at school.

It's really good, but it's pissing me off that I'll have to go on an indepth look at themes in order to do well on my exam.

Trying “The Terror” by Dan Simmons again. Last time I got distracted.

halfway through Jennthebenn's Spirit Desire. Loving it. Makes me nostalgic for the days when the Youth were still assaulting our ears as a group.