The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read this quite a while ago, so it's a bit fuzzy in my mind; however, I DO remember it was well written and I enjoyed the journey.


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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

Wow!  What a great book!  Neuroscience and psychology provide a fascinating look at why we do what we do.  Tremendous fun and highly informative.  Time will tell if it leads to better decision making on my part....

The Geography of Time

This 1997 book by Robert Levine intrigues me, and I'm not sure why.  It seems to me a given that different cultures hold different concepts of time, but somehow this light-hearted, easy to read book offers more insight and I can't put it down.

Determined Locavore

Have been enrapt in converting to locavorism...not an easy task when I have no land to call my own.  Still, I've read (er, listened to, to be precise) Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food and I'm convinced local food is the way to go...on more than one level.

Saturday and Wednesday farmers markets provide a nice basis and not quite 50% of my meals are comprised wholly or mostly of local produce.  Am having to fill in gaps created by my lack of inventiveness in food planning with organics that leave massive carbon footprints, but I'm on the way.

The largest obstacle I see looming is the spring water issue.  I don't trust Houston water as far as I can spray it, but I'm harboring lots of guilt over the plastic containers that house my spring water of choice, Crystal Geyser.

This, as all of life, is a process.

The Fabric of the Cosmos

Wow!  This work by Brian Greene is fascinating, and, despite being written in easy to understand lay terms, it was still over my head.  Physics and I never got along well. I kept asking 'Why?' and was consistently told 'It just is...accept it as fact,' which stuck in my craw.

So, now I find myself again asking why.  Why are there so many dimensions? What caused the big bang? When will we have the ability to see the future? Why are we here/now?

New Adventure

Having abandoned my previous blog cyberdabbler.blogspot.com for lack of material (It was, after all, work-related and I no longer work there, don't you see?), this will serve as the venue for infrequent posts.