So, it's bright and early on a new year, and I intend to do something like this ever year. I did something similar last year, too. Here's all the books I read in 2009. Keeping track of them all started because of a lack of space to shelve them all; so I find a place to put all the ones I've read in one spot, and, conveniently, that means they're ( Read more... )

A random little thought for today:

I like The Lovely Bones. It really is a very good book.

But I feel bad, because I read it, and most of what I think is, "I wish this was written by Jeffrey Eugenides instead."

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So, today is Ursula K. Le Guin's birthday, and I've decided to celebrate by going out when I'm done with work and buying A Wrinkle in Time and reading it. I haven't read it since elementary school. This is a travesty.

I also came to a realization while working out yesterday that I might want to write something other than the Ender's Game meets ( Read more... )

I've just finished On the Road in a blur of about three days, while sitting on my ass in my suburban home, which I felt is as great an homage as I could make in dedicating myself to such a staple, reflecting, if anything, the breakneck blur of three days in which he was supposed to have written it. I didn't exactly sweat through any t-shirts, but ( Read more... )