http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/ Reading Matters Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:19:19 GMT AbeBooks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1014 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1014 Search thousands of booksellers selling 110 million books. Can't see images? Click here to view this online. Bleak Books - Top 10 Depressing Reads Earlier this Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:43:02 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1013 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1013 Because of lack of participation, I'm thinking of closing two of my email discussion groups: Thinking Matters and Reading Matters. Any objections? FilmFlam Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:51:52 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1012 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1012 I think of Bob Pyle as my neighbor. We rent offices in the same building, though we live (so to speak) a few miles further apart. He's a naturalist and writer Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:00:03 GMT Byron http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1011 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1011 More about Jack Williamson. ===================== Jim Stasheff''s brother is a science fiction author and colleague of Jack's. Jim Stasheff writes: Personal Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:49:52 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1010 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1010 I've long thought that Jack Williamson's book "The Humanoids" has been unjustly deprecated. It is a chilling little book, and its theme -- being over-run by Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:33:23 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1009 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1009 a review of a book I'm reading... http://www.reason.com/rauch/101606.shtml I'll give my impressions later. t Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:48:11 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1887655,00.html Book reveals old violin customs. But is it a fiddle? · Doubt cast on history of funerary musical Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:33:35 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1007 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1007 The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/magazine/17satire.html September 17, 2006 My Satirical Self By WYATT MASON Lately, my father has been Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:21:51 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1006 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1006 http://jergames.blogspot.com/2006/08/us-patent-code-in-verse.html U.S. Patent Code ... in verse U. S. Code, Part 35 - Patents Note: The Copyright Code is here. Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:19:53 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1005 Of course, Nicholson Baker would object to missing the texture of the paper, and the ads, and . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5317942.stm BBC NEWS Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:42:05 GMT Byron http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1004 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1004 I've never been bothered by "man, mankind" in the quote. It's clear, and "a man" is clumsy and prosaic. Which is perhaps why, at a time of stress, he dropped Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:40:29 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1003 This reads better on my website, so all I'm providing is my link: http://www.wirkman.net/#2006.08.20 t Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:35:43 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1002 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1002 ttp://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww? section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=11887 My Summer Reading Journal George W. Bush reads Camus (as told to Julian Sanchez) Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:39:38 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1001 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1001 Discuss: http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/take-it-as-read-men-prefer-angst/2006/ 04/06/1143916650116.html?page=fullpage Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:51:08 GMT Virkkala http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1000 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadingMatters/message/1000 "books on Liberty" from Liberty, on the Mises blog: http://blog.mises.org/archives/005420.asp#more