I've started listening to Great Expectations  and am finding it very entertaining. He is quite adept at painting his characters in very memorable and overblown ways, while still keeping them from being caricatures or ridiculous. I've been laughing out loud a lot with this one so far. I wonder why all these classic novels …
Star Trek: Discovery, episode 3
In what feels like the first episode of the series, we begin to follow Michael on her journey after having her rank stripped and being sent to prison. At least Saru is back! Good stuff: We are on a science ship, doing research. Not a war ship, not in battle. The characters are mostly scientists, …
The Looking Glass War, by John le Carre
The Looking Glass War , the second le Carre novel I've read, was much different from  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. It was about a completely other department, in fact, called 'the department.' The department doesn't usually send spies out into action, but they think, hey, why shouldn't we do that too? …
Mass shooting in [city], [number] dead
It is the deadliest shooting in US history, until next month. Are the American people okay with this? Each week and month and year that goes by with nothing being done tells me that most are. Imagine a world in which you can buy a tank at your local car dealership. Imagine in this world, …
Finished!
I completed a draft of the novel I've been working on since April! And... it's not a novel, coming in at only around 33,000 words. Well, that's where it ended, so that's what it is. I may even end up cutting some, as I rambled quite a lot in the beginning. It feels amazing to …
Jonas David 