father and son a study of two temperaments

Return to Oz: The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L.Review: News from Nowhere by William Morris.Review: IronWolf by Howard Chaykin, Denny O'Neil.Return to Oz: Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L.Voice and Genre in Young Adult Literature: Two Boy.Exploring the Universe with the DC Super-Stars of.No retrospect will take us to the true beginning and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.'

His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off in medias res. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is at Nought. 'Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. 2017)īacklog Thursdays: Older, Unreviewed Reads (Aug. 2019)įaster than a DC Bullet: Comic Book Collections in Chronological Order (June 2008–Aug. 2020)Īcademic Thursdays : Books for Teaching or Research (May 2017–Dec. 2020) New Book Mondays : Recent Pleasure Reads (Aug. Though this blog began primarily as a vehicle for reviews, I try to post something else once a week, whether it be essays on parenting or commentary on teaching and academia or stories I discover in my research.Īny Day You Can Post Is a Day to Post: Pandemic-Era Blogging (Apr.-July 2020) I have published a number of journal articles about Victorian science and early science fiction under this name, and am currently at work on a book manuscript about the scientist in British fiction from Mary Shelley to H. I am currently an Associate Teaching Professor in the English and Writing Department at the University of Tampa. in English literature, with a specialization in Victorian literature and science, at the University of Connecticut in 2016. Under this clever pseudonym, I am an English academic: I completed my Ph.D. This is also the blog of Steven Mollmann. Under this name I have also published a number of pieces of fiction, most notably the Star Trek novel A Choice of Catastrophes. My reading tastes are dominated by comic books, science fiction and fantasy, Star Trek and Doctor Who novels, and literary fiction, especially Victorian and neo-Victorian.

I cross-post most of my reviews to my LibraryThing account. I review books and comics and sometimes films on Mondays and Wednesday, and also provide monthly lists of all the books I've read and purchased. I started this blog in November 2011 as a way of chronicling my reading (importing some, but not most, of the posts from an old LiveJournal).

Father and son a study of two temperaments