Street Without Joy by Bernard B. FallMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent. Superb! Everything I had heard about it. If you're a student of, or even just interested in, the French debacle in trying to recolonize Indochina, as well as subsequently the failure of the US, particularly in my opinion, by apparently never conducting …
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I don't think many people know that anyone can go to the Internet Archive and access up to three of my poetry collections there and can read, borrow or even download for free one or perhaps even all of these three out of print books of mine. I encourage anyone to do so, especially if …
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Yesterday I posted a collage under the title Scott C Holstad: 5 Decades in Letters which was essentially nine pics of me in various stages and places of my writing career dating from 1988 to the present. It was easier to choose photos from some decades because those were just partial decades as opposed to others …
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I've been a member of The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) for maybe half a dozen years. It's the primary professional organization for those in the field of neurology and its website states it's the world’s largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals. They conduct and report a ton of important original research and publish …
Yesterday I published a post titled My 2024 [Belated] Goodreads Reading Challenge. It was basically half of my annual end-of-year posts on my Goodreads reading efforts for each year. It focused on my 2024 Reading Challenge (I surpassed my goal of 200 books by reading 408 last year.) but I still have to post the …
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