“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
Finally getting around to finishing up my January-based stuff. Must be that procrastination gene rearing its ugly head.
So, here’s the book pile:
Even with all of those books that I read — the ones on the smaller pile in the front — it doesn’t look like the main stack is any smaller.
That’s because [...]
Woo! Last book for January is Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon. Kate Cypher narrates this ghost story set in two whens: in 1971, Kate’s best friend in fifth grade is murdered, and in 2002 — on the night Kate returns to her hometown after years away — another young girl is killed in [...]
Oh, and I tried to read Succubus In The City by Nina Harper, and my advice to you is this: don’t do it! Not unless you’re into designer name-dropping in every other sentence, NYC native snobbery and vapid, catty characters. Harper seems to be going for “Sex and the City” with a [...]
I’ve been meaning to read something by David Sedaris for ages — at least since my freshman year of college, and that was… yikes, eight years ago? (And now you can see exactly how far on my to-read list that I actually am.) I finally started in on Me Talk Pretty One Day [...]
I’m a huge fan of science fiction. I can’t say why, for certain. I think it has a lot to do with escapism. Fantasy and sci-fi are great when you need a break from real life and want to be absorbed into an alternate reality.
I fell in love with Ender’s Game around the time when [...]
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