Category Archives: Books

Einstein biography for $3

Went down to For­bid­den Flavours tonight to buy my sis­ter a birth­day gift (shhh, nobody tell her), and I nat­u­rally went into the used book­store in the back. They had copies of Greg Bear’s Eon and Eter­nity in there, but the book I ended up buy­ing was Ein­stein: the Life and Times. Looks fas­ci­nat­ing, but …

January 24, 2006 – 7:56 pm | By Patrick | Posted in Books, Ne-e-e-e-e-erd! | Comments (1)

Can’t blog. Writing.

I’ve decided to enter a non-fiction con­test, and I have to have the story in the mail by Nov. 1st, so I’m kind of up against a dead­line. The theme of the con­test is “A Mem­o­rable Voy­age”; my entry, in about its sec­ond draft, is here. You’ll need a pass­word, too: it’s win­nipego­sis. Read it, …

October 25, 2005 – 10:06 pm | By Patrick | Posted in Books, Reviews, Writing | Comments (1)