Hanne's blog

This book is a description of one of Agatha Christie's archeology expeditions to Syria with her second husband, Max Mallowan. It is a fascinating book because so many details about the way they lived shines through, and because it describes a middle… more »

I once read Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook Hiss Wife for a Hat". I was fascinated and a bit frightened by all the weird neurological diseases one can have that I'd never heard of before. This book is not so frightening, the cases are more "normal… more »

- by Maria Snyder This is the three books about Yelena Zaltana, which goes before "Storm Glass" i wrote about a month or two ago. Starting in prison waiting to be executed for murder in the military state Ixia, Yelena instead gets to be the food t… more »

- by Aldous Huxley This is a classic one has to read because one would sometimes miss references otherwise. The title "Brave new world" is taken from a Shakespeare quote really: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteo… more »

- by Tracy Kidder This is the story about the creation of the Eclipse MV/8000 alias Eagle, documented by a journalist present at Data General at the time (late seventies). It is a worthwhile history lesson if one is into computers. It explains the… more »