I can still vividly remember clicking onto Pajiba in March of 2009, to see Dustin’s post that AlabamaPink had died from leukemia. I know I gasped aloud and started reading thinking “no, no, no, no.” How could the death of this person I’d never met affect me so much? A young mother, whose witty, snarky comments had made me laugh was no longer on this Earth, and I was just sitting at a computer, expected to carry on the work of the day as usual. […]
I want to live in this man’s mind…
The View From The Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
For me, reading Neil Gaiman is like giving my brain a hug, and that’s equally as true of his non-fiction writing as it is his fiction books. So The View From The Cheap Seats was welcome respite from real life shenanigans, although it is also responsible for my already hefty to-be-read list mushrooming into something that could now blot out the sun. Comprised of a vast array of non-fiction essays, they’re separated into topics to make it easy to navigate for casual readers and ensuring […]
Proud to be a Book Hog!
The Book Hog by Greg Pizzoli
The Book Hog has a particularly odd cover that at first made me think this was going to be a very weak book. It was going to have a particular story (slapstick for no reason). However, I did enjoy it. And while the artwork is still not my thing, it has a certain charm to that works well with the story. Greg Pizzoli has created a book about how one Hog is a Book Hog. He loves books. Loves the way they smell. The way […]
He’s Running, but also, Let’s Fight!!! – aka I wrote 1000+ words because I hated it
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse
Oh boy! I have so many thoughts that I took notes on the things I wanted to write about for this one. Let’s do this: I read this book because I know a little bit about Senator Sasse. I knew he has a Ph.D in history from Yale and was a university president all before becoming a senator at age 41. I knew he was a Republican who was savvy on social media, specifically Twitter. He first gained notoriety, to me at least, by penning […]
Books about books, dance, reporters and scuba diving!
Last night, I was looking at the box of (sadly) damaged books at work. I saw four I Can Read books. I have not read one in a while, so I picked them up. They average out to be a 2.5 for the four, but kids will enjoy and will be 5’s down the board. My biggest complaint with easy readers is companies do not have a uniform rating system. Publisher X might have these at a Level 1 but another would have them as […]