B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1910s / Emily St. John Mandel / future / investigation / Literary fiction / lunar colony / moon / mystery / New York City / nonlinear timeline / Pandemic / Speculative-Fiction / Time-Travel / Vancouver Island3 Comments
Janine: Jennie and I loved Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel’s breakout novel (Jennie even caught up on one or two earlier books by the author), so we reviewed her follow up, The Glass Hotel, together. When we heard she had a new book, Sea of Tranquility, we decided to ... more >
Publishing Newsbook market / Brexit / fashion / future / iClassics / iOS / social media / Twitter2 Comments
Brexit: what next? – Neill Denny’s pro and con consideration of Brexit’s likely effect on the book industry. Some of his pros are a little dicey (the ‘we’re masters of the English-speaking world’ angle, for example), but certainly it’s true that disruption makes room for change, both positive and negative. Still, ... more >
EssaysChanges / databases / future / Hope / Tech Sunday9 Comments
Starting out With the Rough Stuff This week’s post is going to get technical. As ever, I am leaving out some details in order not to write a textbook. Updated to add a link (see bottom of post) to a very apropos Venture Beat article) Some acronyms up front: SQL: ... more >