They're called 'amicable numbers,'and they're extremely rare.

Christopher Robin hugged Eeyore's neck.
"You are the very best of donkeys," he said.

As usual, coinciding with the movie release I've seen many comments of "the book was better". This statement or its brother "the movie was better" bother me!

Anyone who makes such a comment (hopefully) has both A. Read the book and B. Seen the movie. Either A preceded B or B preceded A. Doesn't having expectations from reading/watching the first render one incapable of evaluating the latter objectively?

Kiwi could feel his intelligence leap like an anchored flame inside him. His whole body ached at the terrible gulf between what he knew himself to be capable of (...) and what he was actually doing.

Kiwi could feel his intelligence leap like an anchored flame inside him. His whole body ached at the terrible gulf between what he knew himself to be capable of (...) and what he was actually doing.

The flaw of this book: Ms Sandberg's assumption that ambition is good. I say: Lean back.

Fun crime read.

"You're pathologically independent."

A book by my friend (and two-time Ragnar running relay teammate) Robin Epstein! Luckily she's as clever a writer as she is a running assassin.

I can't escape you, Mr. Thompson, not even in Aberdeen!

Today's New York Times crossword, down 104: Mathematician who was the subject of the book "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers"

Went to Barnes and Noble with every intention of finding a nice novel... came home with this. I'm such a sucker for #math

Two shelves.