Geography and Maps, Graphs, and Charts Maps, graphs, and charts are amazing ways of using different forms of media to communicate information. People like to see pictures. We all have our favorite memes, right? I’m not selling https://www.voronoiapp.com/ as anything other than an example of group of people who collecting develop maps, graphs, and charts…
Drood. Dan Simmons. 2009. Hatchette Book Group. Hardback. $9 I’ve been wanting to read a Dan Simmons tome – and I do mean tome – for years. Originally, I had anticipated reading his Hyperion Cantos series first. This collection of four novels has become a science fiction classic around which science fiction enthusiasts have developed…
Purple Cane Road, by James Lee Burke. 2000. Dell Fiction. Paperback. $8 Some people, when they write, take you there. You know what I mean; poets, authors, songwriters whose ink magically transmutes thoughts and imagery from their minds into ours. Lyrical words spellbind us, capturing our attention like the scent of a woman, like driving…
The Cabinet of Curiosities, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central Publishing. 2002. Paperback. 626pgs. $6. I read as often as I can, as much as I can. In my younger years of the 1970s and 80s, in middle school and high school, I would push my dirty clothes against the bottom of my…
Constant Geography 