a fitting tribute

It is wonderful that we have a national day of mourning in honor of a man who was a true icon to millions. Ray Charles, rest in peace.

a fitting tribute

It is wonderful that we have a national day of mourning in honor of a man who was a true icon to millions. Ray Charles, rest in peace.

recent reads

A while ago, i read Alan Moore's "Voice of the Fire", which is an interesting exercise in short stories with differing styles and voices but with common and repeated themes. The stories themselves are hit and miss, a couple of which were rendered unreadable to me by their stylistic conceit (i also have a vague suspicion that i'm not English enough to "get" it). I moved on to re-read Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point", which is a fantastic read and, in a sense, shares a lot with chaos theory. I highly recommend it.

I'm currently reading Jorge Luis Borges's "Ficciones" (lent graciously by palecur); each short story is dense and causes me to read slowly, and Borges's broad lexicon is a significant factor (in English, two books have caused me to write words down for future reference: Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" and Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves"; now Borges causes that in Spanish). At first i was afraid that reading in Spanish was getting harder, but i'm pretty sure now that it's just Borges.

recent reads

A while ago, i read Alan Moore's "Voice of the Fire", which is an interesting exercise in short stories with differing styles and voices but with common and repeated themes. The stories themselves are hit and miss, a couple of which were rendered unreadable to me by their stylistic conceit (i also have a vague suspicion that i'm not English enough to "get" it). I moved on to re-read Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point", which is a fantastic read and, in a sense, shares a lot with chaos theory. I highly recommend it.

I'm currently reading Jorge Luis Borges's "Ficciones" (lent graciously by palecur); each short story is dense and causes me to read slowly, and Borges's broad lexicon is a significant factor (in English, two books have caused me to write words down for future reference: Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" and Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves"; now Borges causes that in Spanish). At first i was afraid that reading in Spanish was getting harder, but i'm pretty sure now that it's just Borges.