Time: Who knows where the time goes, asks one song. The days dwindle down, no time for the waiting game, goes another. I don’t have the time to explain that to you, says my wife, but it would only take the same amount of time as her telling me she hasn’t the time. Tick. Tock. […]
My blog design is to alternate from one week to the next, between a book review and something – mmm – different and of interest to me, ergo hopefully of interest to you, my followers. A few weeks ago (https://jackboston.com/termination-shock-by-neal-stephenson/) I reviewed Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Termination Shock. Then last week I wrote about my […]
Greetings from Florida where Black Friday is still sprawling all around us and Thanksgiving is just a lingering bit of indigestion. I would like to tell you about an incredible experience from last week – Tuesday, November 15, to be precise: the first launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 rocket, the biggest rocket of all time, […]
As of late, I seem to be favoring big books: long, more current novels such as David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (more pedestrian than I had imagined), magnificent Metropolis by Monte Schulz, Richard Powers’ The Overstory (wow, wow, wow), David Wroblewski’s first novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (so engaging I read it twice), Confessions […]
Hurricane Nicole just went on its way from Florida, where I’m at my writing retreat working on a new book. I missed Ian a few weeks back, but this one was a doozy, waking my wife and me at 2:13AM as a 25-foot limb blew off a camphor tree in our backyard. Fortunately it mised […]
In The Lake Of The Woods is a gripping tale unlike most novels you’ve read. First, “Lake of the Woods” is a real lake in northern Minnesota – the state known as the “land of 10,000 lakes.” Second, note the book title: “in” the lake. Remember this. Sometimes a book comes along and just knocks […]