The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I don’t know about your world but in mine reading and eating just go together. When I curl up with a good book the situation goes from great to amazeballs just by adding something to nibble on. I like small candies (M&Ms, Nerds, Reese’s Pieces, etc), popcorn and lemonade, beef jerky, or cookies. When I [...]
(But I only answered 9!) Here is a Q & A with me over at All Things Expounded.
I’ve been reading like a madwoman. I wolfed down The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, am four-sevenths of the way through The Chronicles of Narnia, and just finished the first volume of The Book of the New Sun. I am living on coffee and wine and fudge and the very best fantasy ever written. [...]
I’ve been getting ready for Christmas lately. Shopping. Baking. Planning. Inviting. I’ve been working on my Lewis Library project (albeit slowly). And I’ve been reading for the sheer indulgent pleasure of it. First The Lord of the Rings. Next The Chronicles of Narnia. And lastly The Book of the New Sun. I hope I make [...]
The last few years have been slower reading years for me. I have dropped well below my usual pattern of 100-ish books in 12 months and even farther below my 2008 high of 200. Part of this has been due to my graduate work, which absorbed much of my time; part due to the depressive [...]
I finished Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy last night. I quite enjoyed all three volumes. They were not the most absorbing books I’ve ever read (I give them a collective grade of 3 stars out of 5), but I found them very interesting. Asimov’s vision of the Galactic Empire, fundamentally secular and very concerned with the fate of [...]