Tergiversations of a Traveling Mind

Parents coming to visit can be so disruptive. And tiring. I think it's taken me a week to recover, and I'm still feeling the after-compulsion to make sure everything is obsessively-compulsively neat. I find myself bending over to pick up a speck of lint that has fallen onto the carpet.

Unfortunately, my reading has fallen dangerously behind, and the summer is waning very quickly. My calendar says that this is the the 33rd week of the year, so I foresee that I will not be making the 50 book goal...but one can always hang on and hope and pray for the winter holidays to make a last-minute comeback.

Book #24: Storm Front, by Jim Butcher
( A Dresden Files Novel: For the Anita Blake Fans... )

And now for a book I'm not going to review, because I couldn't finish reading it (but I'll let someone else review it for me):

The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death

Let me just say that if you're of any scientific inclination, this book will make you scream. The man who carried out this investigation is an accredited scientist, not your average lay-person, so I have much higher standards for the reading. All I can say is his experiments are improperly controlled, the data is subjectively scored, and the assumptions he makes are atrocious. Even if life after death exists, he's doing the wrong experiments to find evidence for it.

Grrrrrr.......