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The best way to comment on a book…
…is not actually a long and thought-out blog post, but rather, a series of Internet meme-photos with the captions altered. So here are some Y U No… pics in honor of A Game of Thrones.
“Dark wings, dark words.”
One down, four to go: I finished re-reading A Game of Thrones the other night. As noted the other day, I’m going to read something else before returning to Westeros (and the lands beyond the Narrow Sea) for A Clash … Continue reading
Everybody’s starving, and those shifty Wilder boys are feasting on pancakes?!
After reading a wonderful book called The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure, I feel the need to make a literary confession: I’ve never finished reading the Little House … Continue reading
A Pile of Doorstops?
So this year I’m re-reading all of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (which, when I piled all the books in my arms, I realized should be retitled A Dirge of Back Pain and Eye Strain). I’ve … Continue reading
2012 Classics Challenge: “Heart of Darkness”
I’m actually doing a reading challenge in 2012, called the “Classics Challenge”, and hosted by the blog November’s Autumn. The idea is to read seven works of classic literature, of which only two can be re-reads. (You can peruse my … Continue reading
All Things Pie
Pie on the brain lately! :: Beth Howard, who has become one of my favorite bloggers, has been working on a book called Making Piece, which is about how she dealt with awful grief (her husband passed away suddenly at … Continue reading
A lifetime of sitting in the dark
I was nine years old, and I wandered into the living room to find my mother watching some show on PBS. It was a show about movies – there would be a clip of a new movie that was out, … Continue reading
Page One: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Uncanny X-Men)
Page One: The Phoenix Saga (Uncanny X-Men), originally uploaded by Jaquandor. My main era of comics reading was in the mid to late 1980s, spanning roughly the latter half of seventh grade until the end of my senior year, when … Continue reading
Mr. Asimov on Libraries
I saw this on Tumblr, and I had to put it here. Apparently a town opened a new library, and as part of the festivities, asked a bunch of writers at the time to write letters about libraries to the … Continue reading
I must not make fun of “Twilight”….
…and yet…