The passing of a legend
It’s being reported today that drumming legend Neil Peart passed away this Tuesday after battling brain cancer for the last three years. It’s diffic...
Author: Reay
New year, new website
It’s been far too long in coming, but hopefully in short order, this website will not only be live (it actually is now, though no one’s checking it ...
Happy New Year and other things
Yes, Happy New Year, as this is the first, if belated, post of 2020. For anyone wondering, I have four resolutions for the year, which seems a reasonable amount...
Top 10 favourite books of 2019
I managed to read 40 books this year, well above 2018’s total of 27. Hoping for getting through even more in 2020. Here are a list of my top 10, appearing...
Tiny drumroll, please…
As promised, here are my reading lists for August through to October. I don’t know if the September/October list is actually exhaustive, but it’s al...
Hey look, that ball I dropped…
I realized a couple of months back that I had forgotten to post the books I had read for the month. I’d done the tracking and writing up of the list (the ...
The acid test of book format preferences
As posted earlier, I definitely find myself more likely to seek out print books than ebooks. The proof was in the pudding yesterday. I found myself in a booksto...
Read this book
I’m subscribed to a newsletter that provides daily (legit) links to free and cheap ebooks for the Kobo. The problem, I found quickly, is that way more oft...
Losing weight
I’ve had a lifelong issue with being heavier than I’d like. Probably heavier than is healthy, though I read some time ago that people who have about...
Teaching an old dog new tricks
I sometimes shake my head at how badly I fumble even the basics of writing. There’s old writing advice that goes, essentially, that you should let the sto...