I've found a pdf of The Master and Margarita. When I finish the ebooks I'm reading now I'll start that one, after first going through the Booktalk thread dedicated to it. But that'll be a while. I read American Caesar some time ago. Mention of it here made me think of Shirer's The Rise and Fall of t...

Thanks Chris & LanDroid for the links. I looked at them, looked at some others, watched a couple of tutorial videos. But my wordpress.com blog was restored, so after chasing my tail I arrived at a moot point, as is often the outcome when I deal with officialdom. The exercise taught me that I sho...

I've used wordpress.com for about three years now. Free, not hard to figure out. I just use it to post personal stuff, upload pics and pdfs to give them an URL, things like that. I don't allow comments (avoid the rancor), don't link to social media, etc. Bare bones almost to the marrow. But now I've...

Sometimes I find bargains on craigslist. I'm going to pick up a bookcase full of Louis L'Amour books tomorrow. I was looking for bookcases and came across a huge set of L'Amour. I'll sell the books on eBay I suppose, but keep the bookcase. The whole thing will cost me $100. The books are selling for...

Since I can now leave my Webster's out for easy access, I stop at it occasionally to look for new words. Yesterday I found "metoposcopy." The Wikipedia definition: Metoposcopy is a form of divination in which the diviner predicts personality, character, and destiny, based on the pattern of...

Moby Dick could be regarded as just another fish story, and pretty tame compared to some of the ones I've heard bloviated at family gatherings.

I guess of all the books I've ever come across, my favorite would have to be Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition. I think it was first published in 1934 and revised into a Third Edition in 1961. The copy I have is gift inscribed 1948, but I'm not sure when it was printed. A bookbinder re...

A title that I've self-published for the past two years. Order your copies now as stocking stuffers: https://mikesheedy.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/fortune-telling-mazes-2018/ The mazes were the first graphics work I did on the computer. Got enthused and made a bunch, then I didn't know how to market t...

Sometimes on eBay I'll search for a "lot" of books. I picked up a dozen of the Robicheaux novels for next to nothing that way. After the holidays I'll sell a lot of novels by Stuart Kaminsky. It's a good way to pick up beat-up reading copies a bunch at a time.

In Austin I used to go to the Book Exchange, in south Austin, on Stassney. According to the internet it's closed now. They had a card system where you'd drop a stack of books and they'd mark credits, then when you bought a book they'd charge you a nominal price. Like exchanging one book for another ...