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Here is a list of books (or other long-form works) that I have read for the year. They will come in many formats (paper or pBooks; electronic or eBooks; audio or aBooks). I may mix format (I tend...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024-year-in-books.html

As with the past several years, I'm going to attempt to read a number of shorter works (primarily fiction, if the past is a guide) equal to the number of days in the year (365). These will mostly...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024-year-in-shorts.html

  From Literary Hub , Umberto Eco's favorite books . "Deep Cut"? Seriously? Dumas? Joyce? Jesus wept. 

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/06/ecos-favorites.html

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), now appearing in our skies. Between the blue tails and the green head, I'm reminded of someting...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/green-visitor.html

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the familiar periodic table of the elements, coded as to origin of said elements. We are, as the astronomer said, all star stuff. 

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/its-elementary-my-dear-watson.html

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the International Space Station and the Tiangong Space Station "passing" in the night. The image was a time exposure, so the stations were visi...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/cosmic-voyagers.html

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the full moons of 2022. Hopefully you get a chance to enjoy 2023's lunar bounty (I usually get socked in by clouds on that night). 

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/lunar-cycles.html

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Messier 45, The Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, children of Atlas and Pleione. Those who are long-time readers of this blog will be familiar wi...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/sisters.html

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a galaxy being menaced by a cometary globule (CG4). A cometary globule has the same relationship to comets as a planetary nebula has to planets...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-menace-of-galaxies.html

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the asterism known as Kemble's Cascade. Twenty-odd stars, all (more or less) in a row, in the constellation of the giraffe (not the camel), Cam...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/todays-astronomy-picture-of-day-shows.html

  Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the western sky after sunset. "Mouseover" the image in the link to flip the image from a labeled guide to the current planetary lineup and a un...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/march-of-planets.html

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is an image from Voyager 1 . Nearly lost in the haze of Saturn's rings is our small rock of a world.

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/blue-and-green.html

 As with the past several years, I'm going to attempt to read a number of shorter works (primarily fiction, if the past is a guide) equal to the number of days in the year (365). These will most...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-year-in-shorts.html

Here is a list of books (or other long-form works) that I have read for the year. They will come in many formats (paper or pBooks; electronic or eBooks; audio or aBooks). I may mix format (I tend...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-year-in-books.html

 And thus ends the year in reading that was 2022. What was the rundown? For books and longer works: 171 (up from 156 in 2021). For short works of all types: 525  (up from 416 in 2021). O...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2023/01/2022-year-in-reading.html

 Just as the past few years saw me try to reignite a love of reading, this year I am going to try and listen to more music (more often). So, what will 2022 bring? Current as of: December 31, 2...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-year-in-audio.html

 Another year in the books! Long forms read? 156! Short forms read? 416! The biggest improvement year over year was to maximize my reading time. I cut way back on television and podcasts...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2022/01/2021-year-in-reading.html

  Across the eons comes a tale of a time in a galaxy far, far away, when John DeNardo of SF Signal  started tracking his short stories read as a way of trying to make a goal of reading one sho...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-year-in-shorts.html

 Here is a list of books (long form works) that I have read for the year. Books will come in many formats: paper (pBooks), audio (aBooks), electronic (eBooks) and possibly even serialized in mag...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-year-in-books.html

 I'm listing these as aBooks (audio), eBooks (electronic, various formats) and pBook (paper, various sizes). In some cases you'll see more than one format listed, this is usually where I have bo...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2022/01/current-reads-2022.html

 So, that was the year that was. I started the year with high hopes, managed to hit the mark on reading long and short works, but overall feel like I did not make much progress. Most of what I...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2021/01/2020-year-in-reading.html

 Across the eons comes a tale of a time in a galaxy far, far away, when John DeNardo of SF Signal started tracking his short stories read as a way of trying to make a goal of reading one short ...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-year-in-shorts.html

Here is a list of books (long form works) that I have read for the year. Books will come in many formats: paper (pBooks), audio (aBooks), electronic (eBooks) and possibly even serialized in magaz...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-year-in-books.html

 I'm listing these as aBooks (audio), eBooks (electronic, various formats) and pBook (paper, various sizes). In some cases you'll see more than one format listed, this is usually where I have bo...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2021/01/current-reads-2021.html

  Barbara Hambley: THE WINDROSE CHRONICLES 01—THE SILENT TOWER (Del Rey Books, Open Road Media and others). I first came across Barbara Hambly when she first started being published in the...

http://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-silent-tower.html