Apr 15, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Eagle Harbor Book Company Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS I have a confession to make. Years ago, when I lived in Seattle, I’d take dates on the ferry out to Bainbridge Island, where there’s a lovely little walking district with shops and...
Apr 11, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
(posted on Mark Strand’s birthday – April 11, 1934) What of the neighborhood homes awash In a silver light, of children hunched in the bushes, Watching the grown-ups for signs of surrender, Signs that the irregular pleasures of moving From day to day, of...
Apr 8, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
One of the books that rocked my world as a young adult was Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness. The reason this book struck me with such force in young adulthood is that it emphasized different aspects of the typical science-fiction journey. I read many...
Apr 5, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS Read my books at Kepler’s Kepler’s bookstore has been part of my life for many decades. The first place my family lived when we moved from Taiwan to the United States in the early 1980s was Sunnyvale California. I am sure...
Apr 2, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Books, On Writing
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon is the first novel I know of that told the story entirely from the point of view of a person with Autism. There have been other books that dabbled in these waters, but Curious Incident is the first novel...
