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Review: The Bean Trees
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. 1988.
I am reading a lot this vacation! What an excellent vacation.
The Bean Trees is a book I idly picked up because Dre insisted - he read another of Kingsolver's books, The Poisonwood Bible, and fell in love with her. Now, I haven't read The Poisonwood Bible, but I am susceptible to hype, and I'm also ( Read more... ) -
Review: Eating the Dinosaur
Klosterman, Chuck. Eating the Dinosaur. 2009.
Eating the Dinosaur was a Christmas present last year, and I haven't gotten around to it until now. Why? First, it takes me essentially forever to get around to anything (unless I have little else to read), and second, it's Klosterman. Mind, I like Klosterman quite a lot, but I still haven't ( Read more... ) -
Review: X-Campus
Marvel. X-Campus.
There's no copyright info as far as I can see, though I assume this graphic novel was published this year. Mind, I don't generally post about the comics I read, but I figured I'd put up one about X-Campus, as I'd just finished it and it's reasonably self-contained. (I really SHOULD put up a review of the full series Y: The ( Read more... ) -
Review: Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Powell, Julie. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. 2005.
I finally finished a book! GO ME. For the record, it's not Julie and Julia's fault that this took so long. It's my thesis, my engagement, my job, my other hobbies, and essentially my life's fault. (I actually also read the fourth Harry Potter book and attempted the fifth, ( Read more... ) -
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Why is it that now that I have a job and next to no free time, people are randomly popping in and asking me to do editing things for money? Couldn't they have filled in, I don't know, the year-long gap where I had no income at all? That would've been nice. Not that I'm complaining about the abundance now, but it would have ( Read more... ) -
Planning thoughts, or something.
There's going to be a lot of wedding thoughts going through this journal over the next while, I think. Ah well. I am starting early ( Read more... ) -
Life is crazy, but at least it's moving! Finally.
A couple of life-changingish events happened recently, so I'd better document it here for posterity (and let people know what's going on ( Read more... ) -
Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 1999.
I've been told by dreol, Harry Potter nut and English major that he is, that Chamber of Secrets is the weakest of the seven novels in the series. It certainly seems to be his least favorite; he says he thinks it's because it's less connected with the overarching story and the rest of the ( Read more... ) -
Review: The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence. 2008.
I picked up The Enchantress of Florence when on vacation with dreol at Rehoboth Beach, Deleware. While I'm a pretty huge Rushdie fan (I've read Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Satanic Verses, in that order), I wasn't intending on picking up a book while there - but there were so many bookstores ( Read more... ) -
More jobless whining - plus, ACen!
I turned in four applications today. It would have been five, but the fifth position was already filled. As I not-entirely-joked earlier today, "If I ever somehow managed to go back and see how many of these things I've sent out, I'd probably crawl into a depressive hole and never come out again." An average of two applications a day for months ( Read more... )