It is a new year, and time to assess my reading progress for the year just closed and make plans for 2011. This is the third of my quarte...

This is the list of the 114 books I read in 2010, in the order that I read them. For an explanation of my rating system, see here . There...

New Year's resolutions are not for me.  Other than my perennial resolutions to eat less, drink less, swear less; be kinder to children, ...

It is a new year, and time to assess my reading progress for the year just closed.  I approach this "winter" assessment with trepi...

With success behind him, George remarked more often about a partnership "being not too far away."  For the first time, he sho...

It's the first Mailbox Monday of the year! Did anyone making Reading Resolutions for 2011? Do your mailboxes reflect them? Please b...

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course pres...

The fire in our habitual public-house spurted and fell. -- Strangers and Brothers by C. P. Snow. Better than the first sentence is th...

Christmas is sadly over, the new year approaches, and it is time for me to assess my reading progress for the year.  I approach this "...