It's easy to be smug in hindsight. The dot.com bubble already seems as silly as tulip mania 400 years ago. Who were those foolish Amsterdamers trading entire estates for a single bulb? Imagine investing millions to sell groceries over the Web and send them through the mail! Does anyone know how m...
Snarky – 1: crotchety, snappish. 2: sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner; 3: sarcastically critical or mocking and maliciousWhen Jonathan Raban was a seven-year-old boy living in England, he first read "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and fell in love with the Mississippi ...
Best find yet from the free little library box in my neighbourhood. My edition is from the 1980s and doesn't have a subtitle. I was really drawn in to Raban's prose but part way through the book was a little disappointed that (a) he doesn't talk about that many British coast towns (I can only rem...