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Greg Bear. Add another one to the time-travel list! This is good, hard-science sf with characters you really come to care about.

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Eleanor Arnason. An impulse buy at Border’s: trade paperback, but copyright 1993. Unusual narrative technique and subject matter. What is it to be human? What is moral sexuality? Are there rules for war?

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J.K. Rowling. Quite fun enough!

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bishop calls for tolerance in gay row A lay leader at Greyfriars Church, Reading, responds: “The gravest consequence will be to the Anglican Church’s witness to the name of Christ in our land. May God have mercy on us all and give those in authority Godly wisdom at this [...]

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Reason

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Ursula K. LeGuin. Sadly, not one of her best. Some of the planes are based on interesting ideas or conceits, but the whole thing is a little too precious.

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Nora Gallagher. Lovely, spectacular, inspiring book. Gallagher seems to have a gift for observing and staying with what’s real. I picked it up because of a passage I noticed about her lack of a bachelor’s degree and the difficulty that was creating in her application to the Episcopal priesthood. But there’s so much more here. [...]

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I admit it pales in direct comparison to Matrix: Reloaded, but it was still a fun evening to fill out a movie day. It’s a shame Jean Gray isn’t a more compelling character; I found I didn’t care about her all that much when she died. (Or did she?)

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Of course it’s not as original as the first one–that’s a truism. But it is a fun movie. I admit, in some of the fight and chase scenes I was wondering not about the characters but about the filmmakers, but even so. A big two-thumbs-up.

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Washing, cleaning, unpacking–and trying new Mac things. I’m listening to Nessun Dorma from the album “Puccini Arias” by José Cura.

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