I have a pack of friends who write books for young-adult and middle-grade readers (all of whom you should read). This is not just because I’m incredibly blessed to know smart, talented people, but also…
Browsing Category Books
Nice is a drag
Perhaps the worst thing that can happen to a book is to be nice. Nice is boring. Nice is forgettable. Nice is something you continue reading in hopes that it will get un-nice, it will…
To Kill a Mockingbird is inescapable
Saturday mornings and sometimes the afternoons and occasionally the nights are reserved for documentaries. I love documentaries. I’m not sure why of all the movies in all the land my brain can easily sit through…
One of the sweetest love stories I’ve ever read
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars the sweetest love story I’ve read since, well probably Steve Brezenoff’s Brooklyn, Burning. I thought it would be a longer period of time between sweet love stories. I…
Redirection
Later today as part of my Re-evaluating Personal Artifacts project I’m going to put into words the pain of listening to Jewel in 2012 and try to remember why I liked this dreck in 1995….
The Book of Drugs
I’m a big believer in that adage about not meeting your heroes because they’ll just disappoint you. The same can probably be said about reading memoirs by your heroes. Ignorance really is bliss, people. What…