There is in God (some say)
A deep, but dazzling darkness; As men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear;
O for that night! where I in him
Might live invisible and dim.

--Henry Vaughan, from “The Night”

( Learning to Walk in the Dark )

Note: this is not an exhaustive list by any means. But since I only read 7 of my List of 10 for 2013, I thought I'd note briefly other books that made an impression on me last year. Here they are!

( Other Books I Read in 2013 )

I really wanted to get a better head start on the List of Ten this year, since I didn't get all my books off last year's list read. And I'm doing better so far. I've finished one book, I'm over halfway through another, and I have a third waiting in the wings.

The first book off the list this year is ( The Name of the Rose )

So the night before last I dreamed that I was living somewhere with my brothers. It was a quiet, normal autumn afternoon... until I noticed that all the clocks were misbehaving. Digital displays were corrupted, or showed the wrong time, or randomly skipped from, say, 4:13 to 1:07 to 11:55. There were even two old clocks, the type that showed the ( Read more... )

Okay, for a geek who grew up on Star Trek, this (Hot Gas in Space Mimics Life) is just too cool.