Wally B.
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Four Books for a Desert Island
If I’m ever really stranded on a desert island, the books I want to have with me must have titles like Raft Building for Dummies, 500 Ways to Cook Coconuts, Getting Along with Your Invisible Friends, and of course, How to Escape a Desert Island. For that desert island visit with a small working sailboat, I… Continue reading
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Arthur C. Clarke’s best books
When I was in third grade, in the early 1970s, I encountered Arthur C. Clarke on a classroom book spinner. I was intrigued by the cover and the title and promptly took the book home and devoured it, thus beginning a lifelong love of hard science fiction. My tastes have broadened considerable since, but most… Continue reading
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Bard Bio
As a lifelong Shakespeare fan, I’ve known of the various debates about which of his plays came first, whether Shakespeare was indeed Shakespeare (and not, say, Francis Bacon), whether he loved his wife, how educated he was, and so on with the minutiae. I admit I haven’t much cared, preferring to focus my attention on the sublimity… Continue reading