...she took her ID and prepared herself for the retinal scanner. She wondered what the computer saw as the reader slid across her face. Pattern recognition or something more? Humans stared into each other's eyes for lifetimes, trying to gauge what the other was thinking, feeling. Will you be faithful to me? Will you be … Continue reading Book Review: Love And Other Thought Experiments
Month: December 2020
Of Reading and Other Demons
"I think of literature," she wrote, "as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up."-- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The reader in me surfaced in 2015. I was 28. It was the hardest year … Continue reading Of Reading and Other Demons
Book Review: Father of Lions
By the time he was eighteen, Imad had discovered an immutable fact: animals were better than people. The war was at his door, the ISIS waited to behead him, and he was cooped up in his house along with his wife, and a lot of children. And none of those predicaments perturbed Abu Laith (Imad). … Continue reading Book Review: Father of Lions
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