The Mountain Whisperer is an excellent foray into traditional and quality Chinese literature. The folk tales and narratives are based on the lives of real people who lived prior to, during, and after Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The afterword explains the book. For readers who are…
The Three-Body Problem (Part One a Trilogy) asks a fundamental question: Is science good for humanity? What happens when the progress of science is halted? Can humanity live, endure without science? What is the appropriate balance between religion and science? Is SETI (the search…
Music, like most arts, and reading, allows the listener to create and lose themselves in imaginary worlds. Some call this the suspension of disbelief. Two books illustrate this principle. The first is Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.It is the story about a botched kidnapping-hostage taking by…
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