Oopsie!
I made a big boo-boo on my Fourth Wing post...making it sound like I finished ALL BUT ONE of the books I started, when it was just the opposite. Re-read the new opening paragraph on the site and you'll see what REALLY happened!
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What has Apple Learned About Touchscreens?
(This article was originally published on Medium on May 17, 2022, a few weeks before that year's Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). The previous year Apple had started rolling out M-series Apple Silicon chips into high-end iPads, and speculation was rife that Apple was finally going to
The Ninth (?) Book of 2026: Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
I’ve been researching vampire fiction in a desultory way, and what better place to go than the original vampire novel. I know many of us tend to think that Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the first, but that’s about twenty years too late. (The question mark in the
The Eighth Book of 2026: I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
Started March 21, 2026 Finished March 24, 2026 Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend spawned the Will Smith movie of the same name, the 1971 Charlton Heston flick The Omega Man and the 1964 Vincent Price film The Last Man On Earth. The Omega Man was memorable, if only
The Seventh Book of 2026: Apple: The First 50 Years, by David Pogue
Started March 12, 2026 Finished March 20, 2026 I got this book as soon as I learned it was available, and devoured it. Devouring took me a few days. It’s big. I’ve been an Apple user, on and off, for over 25 years. I’ve gone back and