This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak House, Portrait of a Lady, Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, Heart of Darkness, Madame Bovary, and The Magic Mountain.
Reflections:
• Four of these are more than 800 pages long. The
It's New Year's Eve, and I'm writing a blog post that I have to publish by midnight.
Here's the best thing I've written this year. It's about parenthood.
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count me among those who expect that average people will have no interest in generating their own TV shows, no desire to build their own UIs, no itch to create their own video games, and no latent wish to remove other human beings from every aspect of modern life