The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

Instapaper is a godsend for Kindle users.
I’ve written a couple posts about my search for an application that would make moving web content to the Kindle a simpler process. I have found that application.
With Instapaper, you get a little “bookmarklet” (a little button that goes on your browser’s bookmark toolbar or in your bookmarks drop-down [...]

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Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
If you’re looking for some hard-edged, well-written science fiction, you’ll like Iain M. Banks. This was my first Banks novel. He showed up on my radar when I read a particularly favorable cover blurb on his latest book, Transition, from William Gibson. So I [...]

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I’m on one of my occasional short fiction kicks. I’ve discovered a great podcast, the New Yorker fiction podcast in which one of the magazine’s current fiction contributors reads one of their favorite stories from the archives. It’s a great way to sample some of the classics.
I’ve also been dipping into Richard Ford’s A Multitude [...]

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The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Zenith Angle was disappointing. I ignored other reviews that said as much because I’m a fan of Bruce Sterling’s work. Ah, well.
The ingredients of a good Sterling novel are here, but he over-seasoned the dish. Perhaps in an attempt at satire, he essentially [...]

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In theory.
It would be great if you could get these two softwares to work all the time in predictable ways.
I shouldn’t complain: both are free programs, and, thus, one expects to have to do a little tinkering to make them work. If I can do that, I will be very happy indeed. For, what Bookit [...]

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