Book Reviews!

Well, I promised “politics, life, culture” in this blog, and so far it has been mostly politics with a bit of interesting science thrown in.  Time to add a little culture.  I just finished updating my book reviews for the first time in about 6 months.  I haven't added all that many new books for a half a year's worth of reading, but the fact that Evan is 6 months old is no coincidence with my reduced quantity of reviews.   Anyway, if you are curious, my updated reviews are here.  Among the recently added include a book told from the perspective of a child soldier in an African civil war, one of Vladimir Nabokov's lesser-known works, and the story of the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.  My favorite of the recent additions is Spin, a novel about what happens when unknown alien forces cause time to on earth to move millions of times slower than the rest of the universe.