I recently took Dan Brown’s Master Class and he talked a bit about his novel, Angels & Demons. I saw the movie years ago, but decided to read the book. Well, I found it a bit tedious. I never felt engaged with any of the characters. I wasn’t rooting for anyone (although at one point, […]
Category: Reading
Fly Girls
Thoroughly enjoyed Kieth O’Brien’s nonfiction work Fly Girls. It’s interesting to me to learn about new technology and in the 1920s and 1930s, flying was one of the new technologies. I’m also interested in the progress of women and find it interesting how the women were treating during the emergence of this technology. For some […]
Get Tamburlaine or The Middle Man Free
The Brothers Karamazov
I’ve once again tried to read The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. The writing is simply amazing, but I just can’t get past Part II. All of the religion preaching that happens is untenable to me. I recoil and cringe. I’ve tried several times to plow through this, thinking and hoping that beyond Part II there will […]