Saturday, August 05, 2006

The Ultimate Would-Have-Been Blogger

As I become just a bit obsessed with this blog it occurs to me that if Samuel Pepys were alive today he would have been a natural. With that thought in mind I turned to Goggle and sure enough! -- someone has turned his diaries into a blog! www.pepysdiary.com. Isn't that "most neat and fine!" And so to bed.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Reading

"Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere..." My new favorite first line from Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. I haven't felt compelled to read a serious book in quite a while. I do occasionally read a mystery or a sci fi work from the beginning all the way through to the end but, of late, it seems that I would rather be doing things other than reading. Books don't capture my attention the way they used to. Finding ones I want to read seems like work. At other times in my life I was always on the trail of a good book. I wonder what I'm on the trail of now...


But I did read this one and, like any well-written book, it has found it's way into my view of the world. Now when I see the sun setting hugh and orange I think about the images in Spin of the sun filling the sky, dangerously closer to us. When I drive through desolated areas of the City I speculate about what kind of a civilization would find ours worth going to some lengths to preserve. I also think about the optimism of the story. Its too smart to probably ever have wide appeal but it is richly complex and absorbing.