Friday, October 5, 2007

“Hringbogan” — it has a nice ring to it ...

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About a month ago, I got an interesting comment about the concepts underlying my “wraith” posts from my friend Merlin: In your third blog po...
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Monday, October 1, 2007

Walk to Rivendell ... or beyond

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Thanks to my friend Gary for forwarding me an interesting item yesterday: an exercise challenge expressed in Middle-earth distances. As the...
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Friday, September 28, 2007

Cracking the top 10,000

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It may not sound like much, but my Amazon reviewer rank just went below 10,000 — to 9,793, in fact (as of the time of this writing). If that...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

New Tom Shippey review in TLS

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A nice segue from my post yesterday about Jacob Grimm ... The Times Literary Supplement has just published its review of a new book by Joep...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

“New Learning and New Ignorance”

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You know what I love? When you’ve made an academic argument based on the best evidence you were aware of at the time, and then you find new ...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

My review copies of The History of The Hobbit have arrived!

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I just got a package in the mail today from Houghton Mifflin — and inside were volumes 1 and 2 of John Rateliff’s The History of The Hobbit...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Two new beers to recommend

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Those who know me know that I like to try potables and comestibles from all over the world — the more exotic, the better. And those who know...
Monday, September 17, 2007

Hemingway short stories — Part 3

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Read Part 1 , Part 2 . Once again: these posts will contain SPOILERS. You have been warned. :) “The Three-Day Blow” Picking up in the afterm...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Other books for Potterphiles

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So now that J.K. Rowling has brought the Harry Potter series to a close (notwithstanding the possibility of future add-ons, such as the Pott...
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