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New: 1. Get Onboard: Walk in the Shoes of a Transit Operator by Richard Lee 2. Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan Reread: 1. Memo...

Eddie Izzard is once again attempting to run 27 marathons in 27 days across South Africa to honour Nelson Mandela and raise money for Sport...

I was very surprised to hear that they're rebooting Are You Being Served? because that show is very much a product of its time and tota...

This post is a full spoiler zone for Go Set a Watchman. 1. It's quite obvious that Harper Lee did not intend this book in its current...

New: 1. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee 2. The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World...

This is still a spoiler-free zone for Go Set a Watchman. I'm still less than 100 pages in. In Maycomb, one drank or did not drink. Whe...

From an article about emergency response in highrise buildings: Fire departments are supposed to have access to a universal elevator key...

I just started reading Go Set a Watchman (no spoilers please - I'm only 15 pages in) and I all at once encountered a whole spate of thin...

14. If you complain that someone is doing X instead of Y when X and Y are in no way incompatible or mutually exclusive (e.g. "Instead o...

"Costal" is a real word. It means "of or relating to the ribs". And I very, very, very rarely have to use it in my trans...

I recently learned about a concept called the curse of knowledge .  Wiki defines it as "a cognitive bias that leads better-informed pa...

I previously blogged that the library should invent a way to subscribe to a particular author or series . Ideally I wanted new titles from a...

New: 1. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 2. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood 3. The Trouble with Brunch by Shawn Micallef 4. Afte...

I was walking down a residential side street at about 5:30 pm in the bleakest depths of December, and I found it uncomfortably dark.  The st...

I've fallen down a bit of a Pride and Prejudice rabbit hole lately, exploring fanfictions and historical background information. While...

This post contains spoilers for the most recent episode of Big Bang Theory. If you follow the show but haven't been spoiled for this epi...

Star : IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: This year you will greet some positive changes in your life. You’ll need to learn to look at the big...

I've decided to adopt the French usage of Daesh to refer to the organization that recently committed terrorist attacks in Paris. This ...

Sometimes, for various reasons, companies decide to discontinue a particular product, because continuing to manufacture it is no longer an o...