According to Amazon, I have owned this book for five years. I have read it approximately twice a year since I’ve owned it, so let’s say 10 times. Do I “understand exposure” yet? No: no I do not. So this is a horrible book, right? No: It’s actually excellent, but for whatever reason, I just can’t get the information to translate from the pages of the book to my brain to my camera lens. In all honesty, my statement about not understanding exposure yet is […]
Cringeworthy Media
I don’t read a lot of (traditionally published, anyways) short stories – I tend to like my fiction long-form, give plots a chance to percolate, characters a chance to truly develop. It’s probably more to do with the way I write – never say in three sentences what you could meander on about for three pages – but I’ve always been sort of baffled by writers who could condense their writing into these bite-sized little chunks. The thing about about not particularly searching out short […]
Two New(ish) Nora Roberts
I will admit to being a pretty big fan of the author Nora Roberts. And by “pretty big fan,” you can take that to mean that I may have joined her bulletin boards back in the day, and I may be able to quote scenes from some of my favorite books, and there may be an awful lot of ‘R’ related shelves in my library. At one point – back when said board, ADWOFF, was in full swing, I probably didn’t go a day or […]
Curly-haired Rescue
I’m one of those girls who beauty stuff just doesn’t come naturally to: I’m pretty sure there was some class the rest of you went to on a day I was absent that explained things like how to get your eyeliner to do that wing thing or exactly what you’re supposed to do when faced with both a hairdryer and a round brush. It’s the kind of knowledge my sisters – and I have four of them – seemed to glean through some sort of […]
Here we are, all thinking that it’s the Zombies we’re going to have to protect our brains from, but what if it’s really our computers?
This technological thriller is the kind of book that is written to terrify you into not wanting to so much as glance at your smart phone, lest it attack. AKA, the PERFECT kind of book to be reading on your Kindle late at night; AKA the book my 5th-grade-teaching, technophobe, grammarian grandmother would have agreed with 5000%. It’s a book that takes a serious look at the dependency of people on technology and one of the (oh so numerous ways) that can come back to […]
I’m not sure using kids as spies is a great strategy, but since we did it, we might as well hear about it
Did you know that a 9-year-old boy once wandered into the camp of the British Army, took stock of their troop count & weapons hoard, convinced them he was just a dope who was lost & looking for a mill, all under the orders of General George Washington? Yeah, me neither. Enter Ariel Bradley: Spy for General Washington. The book was well written, and the pictures were engaging: I think the Kindle formatting was not very accessible (it chopped up the pictures and pages […]