A Gently Mad Blog Recommendations

I finished Blindsight by PETER WATTS the other night and I was blown away. This guy can write.
I have picked through Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures at the bookstore and I finally purchased a copy. This book was referenced by SCOTT WESTERFELD as a inspiration [...]

On Compulsion

And just like the tumblers in a lock events occur that make me purchase more books.
I was contemplating placing an order with Neil over at Clarkesworld Books since he is closing up shop and he needs to get his inventory moved. Who am I to not help the guy out.
This order [...]

On How Collectors Save the Written Word

    A few posts ago I spoke of On the differences on Collecting and Reading. The last line of that post “Up next I’ll take a look at the collector and how he does a service to preserving books and culture.” reminded me that I wanted to write about how collectors preserve the written word [...]

On the Idea of Speculation

As It Pertains to Money and As It Pertains to Longevity in Literature and Collections.
A certain idea has been running through my head the past few days pertaining to the speculation of the price of a specific book or edition and whether it is some how immoral to speculate on [...]

Weekly Recommendations- Grad School Edition

As I stated in the previous post I am a trained historian and a living, walking cliche. But enough of that. On to the graduate school edition of Weekly Recommendations.
I went through college concentrating on military and American Civil War history. I found myself getting a little bored [...]