Women around the world are speaking up and revealing the magnitude of the problem of sexual assault and harassment. Men too. WriterShelf is a place where you can share your story, big or small. The privacy of a pen name can help you take the fi...
I came to this after reading Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovaks series and finding myself in search of something to follow on. Somewhere amongst the comments on goodreads, I ran across the recommendation that if one had not yet read Neuromancer...
Every year from Dec. 4th (the date of Frank Zappa's death) to Dec. 21st. (the date of his birth), the world celebrates Zappadan. It's a chance to remember Frank Zappa and all he contributed. Frank created some astounding music and had a unique ...
I turn on my computer and see this. At least 235 people killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the country's northern Sinai Peninsula. 120 wounded. The deadliest attack of this kind in Egypt's modern history. Shorty after Friday prayer...
It was my first good knife. I can almost picture the the out-of-the-way tool store I bought it at, there being no fancy kitchen shops where lived. I certainly remember the kitchen job where I used it. The place was a madhouse.
Digging my thum...
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People are angry that the Russians interfered in the 2016 US elections. Rightly so. The idea that Putin's Kremlin worked to put a thumb on the scales is almost unthinkable. But are elections fair game in modern warfare? Reading Rosa Brooks' How ...
I grew up listening to KZSU, a small FM radio station broadcasting from in some basement at Stanford university. Wikipedia says the station was 10 watts at the time, so it reached maybe 30 miles? The station was all about music. They ran as lit...
I got a free copy of this book in return for a review. My first solicited review! The next book in this series, Hail Warning is coming out soon. Let’s start off by saying I enjoyed the story. It is a clever and inventive read. Since it involves...
No matter how well off or how poor the family situation is, I believe it is so important for every teenager going through high school (or about to go to college) to have a job at least one point in their lives.
The job could just be as simple ...
Unlike many other students, I go to an international school in Asia. I've never been to a public American School, and the only other schools I've ever attended was 3 years of public Taiwanese school in elementary. Some of you might wonder how 'w...
One of the most problematic things for kids and teens these days is: lack of sleep. Yes, it might be because they are up late watching TV shows or procrastinating and doing whatever to put off their homework, but ultimately, it leads up to the com...
Noir cyberpunk science fiction is Richard K. Morgan’s speciality and he’s damn good at it. This stand-alone work is the best of his I’ve read so far. Published in 2007 as Black Man in the UK and Thirteen in North America, the book won the Arthur...
“Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.”
Well, maybe just the weekends. That said, we do spend most of our adult waking hours working and many of us continue to work into our mid-60’s. But there are those...
I should be so lucky as Tsukuru. Things do get better. Basking in the warm glow of this book, it’s interesting to reflect on how I came across it.
There was the Nobel prize news which vectored across my attention: Haruki Murakami, once again...
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are officially back together?? What?? It has been quite a while before the pair split up in 2011. They were on and off for 5 years!! This below is Jelena before
I'm sure everyone has their own opinion on them an...
Theater has always been apart of my life ever since I was pretty little, but it was recently reintroduced into my life as something way more important.
Before, I believed theater and acting was mostly about learning your lines, and pretending ...
Recently, (Oct. 28 to be specific) there was a LGBT march that happened in Taiwan, and it was the largest one held in Asia!
Personally, I attended and walked in the march for about an hour, and was extremely happy with all the positive energy s...
The tech company where I’d landed not long out of school was all about innovating. We felt like trailblazers and in many ways were just that. A couple of years in, one of the original founders started a new project for a solution in an emerging...
For those of you who don't know (which I would hope isn't a lot of you) Taiwan is a little island just off the coast of China. But don't belittle Taiwan because of its size, their reputation for street food is off the charts, and rightfully so. ...
Taylor Swift, 27, can easily be named as one of the top artists and celebrities of the 2000s. Sure, we all know her as the 'cute country girl' who always has the adorable 'surprise face' when she wins an award, but is she really even anything l...
James Lee Burke is a masterful writer. His command of language is nothing short of breathtaking. For this novel, come for the language, stay for the story and linger over qualities of the characters in the drama. Wayfaring Stranger didn’t ti...
I guess I was looking for something harder-edged. Actually, that's a pretty safe bet. The best politico-econo-philosophy books I've read in recent years have all been more confrontational. I liked John Dean's book on the mind of conservative...
There was a moment there when mechanical pencils took my fancy. My interest was peaked partly because of my son. Deep in the math weeds, pencils were his weapon of choice in his studies. It was also partly thanks to a friend from across the pon...
Looking for an engaging cop thriller to pass a few hours? J.D. Barker's The Fourth Monkey is a great place to land. The story revolves around a serial killer who's been plaguing Chicago for some 5 years. No one's been able to crack the case. T...
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People are private animals We are all multidimensional individuals. “Who are you?” is an impossible question for anyone to answer fully, so our answers are always partial. When asked, we keep parts of our selves to ourselves. We expose differe...
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