The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
Some of you may recall that I tried to fund a Kickstarter project a while back. It was spectacularly unsuccessful, mostly because I was looking for a lot of money without a clear benefit to donors. The plan was to create a very complete database of the books C.S. Lewis had owned and read with [...]
I am assembling a reading list for 2012. If you had to choose one Neil Gaiman book to read, which would it be? So far my choices are American Gods, The Sandman Series, or Neverwhere. Thoughts?
I’ve been kind of busy lately. Between grading essays for my substitute teaching job, cooking and traveling for Thanksgiving, and reading good books, I haven’t had much time for blogging. The good news is I am approaching 50 books for the year. I haven’t had an impressive reading year since 2008′s 200 books but dropping [...]
My most bookish (and Wolfe-ish) friend loaned me Gene Wolfe’s first novel: Operation Ares. It was quite disappointing for a Wolfe. Of course, Wolfe himself has made efforts to keep the volume out of print, as it endured a brutal editing process (103,000 words to 60,000!) without Wolfe’s input, and he is not proud of it. [...]
I just finished re-reading Ralph Moody’s account of life in Boston with his widowed mother and five siblings. Mary Emma and Company isn’t the best of Moody’s books, but it is a charming read. I have fond memories of my mother reading all his books aloud to us on long winter afternoons.
My sister is coming in to town this weekend. I am so very excited to see her! I started telling my therapist that I was looking forward to it and burst in to tears. Yes. My therapist. I have one now. And a prescription for Zoloft. You may recall that I posted about being depressed a [...]