Where I pursue my lofty goal to read the science fiction canon, and talk about general bookish awesomeness. Check out my longer ramblings and book reviews at www.readingonarainyday.com
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
…when I was a reader, it often troubled me when friends claimed that they had no time to read. Was it possible that their lives were so full of wonders that they could not spend five minutes here or there to read? How was it that my life, in comparison, seemed to offer so many chunks of reading time throughout the day? A train ride, a late-night break, and an office wait. Through marriage, babies, graduate schools, and new jobs, I always found time to read for pleasure.
Jonathan Gourlay, In the Land of the Non-reader, The Bygone Bureau
Just got this really tiny and short book from the library! Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman, in which the author imagines what Einstein’s dreams were during the time he wrote his special theory of relativity. I can’t wait to find out!
Every technology has an interface, Stanford law professor Ryan Calo told me, a place where you end and the technology begins. And when the technology’s job is to show you the world, it ends up sitting between you and reality, like a camera lens. That’s a powerful position, Calo says. “There are lots of ways for it to skew your perception of the world.” And that’s precisely what the filter bubble does.
~ The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser
Now that’s what a roller coaster should look like! If only it were!
Snagged one of these gems from my brother’s collection! He has a whole cupboard of them that’s making me wish that I had a longer vacation!
Gates Open at Nightfall & Close at Dawn
After hearing all the hype around Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus and still ignoring the book for months, I finally picked it up today morning at the start of my train journey to NY. All I can say is I’m in love! Whatever made me think that I may not enjoy it? This is no Harry Potter though many have compared the two works, and that more than anything makes me happier. I love the Harry Potter books and would hate looking for similarities between the two. The writing is also beautiful, that even when nothing happens, I am lost within the pages.
They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin.
Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours.
The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective.
~ Neuromancer, William Gibson
Orwell vs. Huxley
Reading Timeline
It would be awesome if Goodreads would roll out a timeline feature in graph - which would show colored horizontal bars, each representing a book, and each laid out from the date I started the book to the date I finished it. It will be hilarious to see those days when I was supposedly between 10+ books, simply because I was leaving many half-read (or unread).
