Recently, the Queen of England came and went (Carter had some interesting comments here in a post titled “Send the Queen Home”).
Isn’t it totally absurd that any modern country has a heredity ruler (figurehead, whatever)?
Jeremy Paxon (author of On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families) was on the Daily Show with [...]
I mentioned Citizen Vince by Jess Walter here, but it really was in passing and so, just to be clear, the book is outstanding.
It is a well-written mafia thriller chocked full of everything you would expect. It has the really bad criminal, the moderately bad criminal, the smart criminal, several really dumb criminals, John [...]
This quote has been making the email rounds (I did a brief search and could not find the author. If anyone knows who wrote this, I would love to know):
I want to live my next life backwards.
You start out dead, and get that out of the way.
Then you wake up in an old age [...]
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: the Reasons Behind the Rhymes is an exceedingly funny and entertaining book that tells the history of some of the most common nursery rhymes (London Bridge, Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty etc.).
So, while I absolutely love this book, I like the tale behind it even more. It was written by [...]
