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Cookbook Margin: Boeuf Démodé
Alternate titles:Vegetable MarginVirtual MargarineIt's My Blog and I Can Cook if I Want ToI have a pretty decent cookbook collection. It's not huge, but that's only because I've resolved to actually...
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Guest Post: Review of 'Burning the Furniture'
My good friend Dusty from the blog Dusty On Movies was kind enough to share his review of Dan Smith's memoir Burning the Furniture with me. So put down Justin Bieber's latest book and read about...
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Balloon Pop Outlaw Black
Patricia Lockwood's poetry collection Balloon Pop Outlaw Black from Octopus Books feels like the most unified anthology of poems I've read in awhile. It's a collection in the true sense of the...
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Internet Lovelies
With the lone exception of George Clooney, no one in America ever comes out and says that not everyone wants to get married. The social compact, as expressed in political platforms, revolves around...
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A Feast of Crows
AFeast of Crows. More like A Fast of Interesting Characters. Not that there's a lack of named persons in this book, but we only hear from like, four of them. From a cast of hundreds. And not the ones...
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Crapalachia
Didn't see it coming that a book titled Crapalachia would end up making me bawl like a toddler (see also, my forthcoming review of Kevin Sampsell's A Common Pornography). But Scott McClanahan's...
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The Trees The Trees
I read Heather Christle's The Tree The Trees while waiting in line at the DMV. When you go to the DMV it always takes an hour and a half. I don't know why so many people go there unprepared, completely...
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
art via pekepeke0 on deviantARTI was going to combine this post with a review of Dan Brown's Inferno and call it something like "Terrible books with positive and progressive messages, but are still...
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Internet Lovelies / Microsoft and the War Against First Sale
via redditAs a true tsundoku-ka, let me share some non-book internet lovelies with you.Sometimes I’ll cry and wish I saw my real, true friends more. Sometimes I’ll cry a lot and wish I was still 19...
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I Forgot To Be Famous
Finished Almie Rose's ebook of essays, I Forgot To Be Famous: On Dating, Relationships, and Getting Screwed and Screwed Over in Beautiful Los Angeles from a Writer Who is Trying Her Best, which was...
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Non-adventures in medicated reading
It's July 1st! Which besides being Canada Day also marks the midway point through the year. So how am I doing with my 20,000 page reading goal? Only 5,769 pages turned, you say? Let the excuses...
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A Dance with Dragons
This book. This effing book.That's kind of all I want to write, but I'll try to expand my commentary.This was the 5th and latest installment in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and...
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Hider Roser
I'm at the beach! And reading goes hand-in-hand with warm winds and crashing waves, at least in my experience. I've read the excellent book of poems Hider Roser by Ben Mirov, which managed to make me...
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Part 1
I've been working on this mammoth for awhile. And rather than creating one epic, 20,000 word blog post, I thought it wiser to split it into sections as I read along. I'm only 443 poems into this almost...
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Internet Lovelies and other things too
I've got three quotes from the same person in this Internet Lovelies draft. That's a good indication it's ready to be purged!But before that. I need to purge some nerdy things off my chest.First off: I...
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Extra Life: 25 hour Gaming Marathon and Book Giveaway
I'm so excited about this. I'm like Jessie Spano hyped up on caffeine pills.Here's the deal. On November 2nd October 25th, I will be playing games--computer, video, or otherwise--for 25 hours straight...
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Tumblr I guess!
There's a ton I don't like about tumblr. I hear chainsaws in my head when I'm trying to make it work. And finding the source of a reblogged post can be a long and arduous process. But I have an account...
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Dewey's Read-a-Thon
Between my playing video games 25 hours straight on October 25th, and reading 24 hours straight this coming Saturday, October is going to be a very sleep deprived month.I desperately need to add more...
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The Lathe of Heaven
The premise of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven is a simple one: what if someone could change the world with their dreams? But the resulting speculative novel is anything but simple.George Orr...
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Hyperbole and a Half
The subtitle for Allie Brosh's book Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, could double as a subtitle for this blog. Anyway. Bad...
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
I have a handful of literary guilty pleasures (handfuls the size of Hulk hands), and the Bridget Jones series is one of them. I read the first two books straight through during a 19 hour flight to...
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Tying Up Loose Ends: Another Year Survived
So 2013's reading resolution was a failure. 20,000 pages was the goal and I only managed 8,078. Turns out I spent most of the year 20,000 leagues under my comforter! In a bathrobe!! Listening to...
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A New Year, A New Challenge
Since I apparently have trouble with reaching reading goals that involve numbers, I'm setting myself up for a different "challenge." This one I'm seriously excited about.A few weeks ago a certain...
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The Purge
Not the movie.During my freshman year in college a retiring English professor let students come into her office and take whatever books they wanted. She needed them gone so she wouldn't have to move...
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The People Who Influence Us
There will be a bit of rambling here. And hey, maybe one day I'll read a book and talk about it.I didn't sleep any last night. It happens every now and then--whenever the Sandman replaces his stash...
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