I got an email from Apple last night letting me know that my pre-ordered copy of Steve Jobs’ bio was ready to download. When I clicked the provided link, I was taken to iBooks, where it’d already been downloaded; via iCloud; in the background; on both my iPhone and my iPad. Thanks, Steve. And goodbye.
J.K. Rowling Writes Potter Prequel – J.K. Rowling : People.com
Yay! J.K. Rowling Writes Potter Prequel – J.K. Rowling : People.com: By Caris Davis Within the past month, J.K. Rowling has written a prequel to Harry Potter. And the succinct, 800-word story, written in the author’s own hand, will be auctioned off for charity in London on June 10. (The tale is so shrouded in secrecy, it’s not even clear if the boy wizard makes an appearance.) Proceeds will go.. Read More
Memoirs
So I finished Memoirs of a Geisha today. I’m struck by the subtlety of the Japanese culture that I was largely ignorant of. I was raised wholly American, which is to say that I didn’t learn my parents’ native tongues, and didn’t learn any of their traditions and cultures. As a US Army soldier, my father heavily courted my mother while stationed in Japan. I use the word courted here,.. Read More