Google alerts are very useful: you sign up, put in some keywords, and if those words show up in an online newspaper article then Google sends you an email with a link to the article. I signed up ages ago, and on a lark stuck my name into it, and promptly forgot about it. :-) So when I got an alert earlier this week in the email, it caught me by surprise. It was an article in The Herald, a UK paper, and it was a series of book reviews by various people. My name popped up in a review by novelist Christopher Brookmyer (these comments are on page 10 of the article):
At a time when more and more people seem to be taking a near-Tertullian pride in retaining their "faith" in spite of evidence, fact and logic, I sought succour in a number of works evincing a vivid, ...
