Destina asked me for my seven favorite non-fiction books, which was a great question, though it turned out to be hard narrowing it down! I’m sure not sure these are my seven absolute favorites-I’ll probably remember something the minute I post this-but these are the seven(non-work) books I remember loving right now (many of them pretty recent ( Read more... )

Last year, I recommended more non-fiction than fiction; this year things seem to have tilted the other way ( Read more... )

That time again, folks-chime in here or at your own journal. I have no fun pictures or links-but there is TV for once.

What I’m Reading

The Far Side of the World, Patrick O’Brian (Aubrey #10) (audiobook). Almost finished with it, too. Some truly crazy shit happens in this one, almost none of which made it into the movie (for obvious reasons, ( Read more... )

I’m still spamming y’all, because I was boy-free last weekend, and that meant I went to the movies and actually finished a book.

I took myself to see Argo, which I enjoyed enormously and recommend to all.

( more about Argo, no particular spoilers )

Monday afternoon, when we were still exhausted from travel, the boys and I saw The Bourne Legacy, which we enjoyed very much, though I may have to go back and see it without small squirmy persons who I have to take to the bathroom during crucial character bits.

( more, w/ very minor spoilers )

I read a haunting novel on the train back and forth from DC: The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau (his first novel, published in 2012 ( Read more... )

On our most recent road trip, I finished listening to Mockingjay

( herewith are my embarrassing reactions (they embarrassed my son, anyway) )

Also on my road trip I finished listening to Catching Fire (very well read, like the first, by Carolyn McCormack).

Herewith follows a recap of my reactions:

( minor spoilers )

In which I catch up with the rest of the world

By seeing Avengers and reading The Hunger Games (okay, listening to it, on audiobook).

( y'all already knew that I wasn't a comic book gal, right? )

The boys got Men in Black out of the library. I’d forgotten how wonderful Tommy Lee Jones is in it.

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The River

( spoilers through 1x07 )