Making it Up As I Go

A while ago I got snagged by one of Borders’ “Buy 2 get 1 free” dealies. I found 2 books that I was really interested in, and scanned the tables for a third, which I would be getting for free.… Read more ›

There’s a whole subset of children’s literature that I missed when I was little, the “girl’s novel”. I read Little Women, but that was about it. So when I read Margaret Atwood’s essay about Anne of Green Gables, I decided… Read more ›

Have you ever had the experience where you watch a movie and it’s so bad that upon thinking back on it you have the impulse to watch it again, because it couldn’t possibly be as bad as you remembered? I’m… Read more ›

I’ve read a whole bunch of books and meant to post about them and never got around to it. And now I don’t remember what I wanted to say about them. So here’s a quick catchup. Mary, Martha, and Me… Read more ›

The Top Ten: Writers Pick their Favorite Books, edited by J. Peder Zane is a collection of top ten book lists that 125 authors submitted, with the results correlated in all kinds of interesting ways. (I know that’s not terribly… Read more ›

Oh, to play catch up with a bunch of books. Here we go! The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood: Really quite good. It’s a retelling of the story of Odysseus (from the Odyssey) from Penelope’s point of view, and it brings… Read more ›

No, not books about bookies, just books. I finished two recently, and they were both good reads. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill is a horror novel- a genre I pretty much exhausted my junior year of high school. Seriously,… Read more ›

I’ve read 4 books in the last while- it seems like it takes forever to finish anything lately. I never used to read more than one book at a time, but now I have a book I read while Zoe’s… Read more ›

I know a bunch of you like Harry Potter and are probably planning on pre-ordering the 7th book. If you’re planning on doing that at Amazon, would you mind doing it through one of the links below? If you do… Read more ›