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Peanuts, Cracker Jack, pop flies . . . and physics?

Science, Matter and the Baseball Park by Catherine Ciocchi

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October 30, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am not usually a baseball fan or science fan, but some times things happen within a book to change that. And while Science, Matter and the Baseball Park did not make me want to run and join a baseball team or get season tickets to the local science museum, it did make me go, “well now. Ain’t that a bat to the noggin.” (But in a good way.) Catherine Ciocchi, Burgen Thorne and Chantelle Thorne made a book that brings the theme of Matter […]

Confessions of a recovering literary fiction snob

February 17, 2018 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

I loved reading fantasy and horror and suspense as a kid, and I loved the literary fiction we read in school. As an adult, I started taking myself and my choice of reading materials far too seriously, staying away from anything too genre, making rare exceptions for Atwood’s Madd Addam series or Tolkien. [I know. Insert eye roll <<here>>] And then about six years ago, I read and loved Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory, and I started looking into his other books and found that […]

On Betrayal, Whimsical AIs, and Special Circumstances

January 31, 2014 by Incandenza Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading science fiction since I knew how to read. I’ve immersed myself in utopias, dystopias, parallel universes, and alien mating rituals. I’ve stood on the shores of an inland sea on Mars, plunged into the swirling depths of gas giants, and hacked the operating system of reality. And after thirty years in this genre, I’ve come to one conclusion: I want to live in the Culture. Fuck the Foundation, fuck the Metaverse, fuck Mars, fuck the Federation, and certainly fuck the Sprawl. The […]

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on A family can be two sisters, one of those sister’s descendants, two other sisters, a magic whale, a sentient island, an omnipotent museum, and academic papers
Made a mistake - there's no 'the' in the title. And the book had me at the cover too.
Emmalita
on A family can be two sisters, one of those sister’s descendants, two other sisters, a magic whale, a sentient island, an omnipotent museum, and academic papers
You had me at the cover, and then everything else you said.
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on Dog Days Are Over, Bitches
definitely some healing from religious trauma! And, Saved! is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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on Library Week! Show us Your Library Joy
I meant to visit museums using library passes (so $5 admission for one museum and $15 admission to another museum)...
jomidi
on Library Week! Show us Your Library Joy
Speaking of other stuff at libraries, in the past couple of months I used library museum passes to pay only...

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Peanuts, Cracker Jack, pop flies . . . and physics?

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