Saturday, January 16, 2010


Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

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Adding this for sake of completness - but I did not finish the book. My interest in things mnemonic made me seek this out afterI'd read references to the book, which tells of the Jesuit missionary who brought "Memory Palace" techniques to China as part of his evangelism efforts. I read portions describing the mnemonics, but was less interested in the history aspects so I gave it a pass. But it inspired me to pick up "Your Memory : How it Works and How to Improve it," a book on mnemonics I've read before to review....
Homecoming, The Farthest Shore, U is for Undertow(catching up again)

Not much to add here - just want to note some recent reading.


Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming #1, Vol. 1 by Christie Golden



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Synopsis

After seven long years in the Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Starship Voyager™ now confront the strangest world of all: home. For Admiral Kathryn Janeway and her stalwart officers, Voyager's miraculous return brings new honors and responsibilities, reunions with long-lost loved ones, and for some, such as the Doctor and Seven of Nine, the challenge of forging new lives in a Federation that seems to hold little place for them.

But even as Janeway and the others go their separate ways, pursuing new adventures and opportunities, a mysterious cybernetic plague strikes Earth, transforming innocent men, women, and children into an entirely new generation of Borg. Now the entire planet faces assimilation, and Voyager may be to blame!


Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming #2: The Farther Shore, Vol. 2 by Christie Golden


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Synopsis

When an unstoppable Borg plague breaks out upon Earth, blame quickly falls on the newly returned crew of the Starship Voyage ™. Did Kathryn Janeway and the others unknowingly carry this insidious infection back with them? Many in Starfleet think so, and Seven of Nine, in particular, falls under a cloud of suspicion.

Now, with a little help from the Starship Enterprise ™, Admiral Janeway must reunite her crew in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to discover the true source of the contagion and save Earth itself from total assimilation into a voracious new Borg Collective.

But time is running out.

Has Voyager come home only to witness humanity's end?



U Is For Undertow (Kinsey Millhone Series #21) by Sue Grafton


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Synopsis

It's April, 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone's thirty-eighth birthday, and she's alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if he'd be carded if he tried to buy booze, but Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl disappeared. A recent reference to her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the child's remains and finding the men who killed her. It's a long shot but he's willing to pay cash up front, and Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he's the boy who cried wolf. Is his current story true or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?