Oh, this book was so hard to read — both the specific tragedy of Saroo’s story, as well as the horror of what millions of other kids like him continue to experience. It’s an excellent book, and definitely worth reading, but I will not be seeing the movie version. “My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was “surprised with thunder” that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was “as deep as the […]
I really need to reread Vonnegut
When I was growing up, my dad had every single Vonnegut paperback published before the mid-nineties. I read them all when I was young, focused on the fact that I was so precocious for reading Vonnegut, but not understanding a damn thing. This collection of speeches — primarily given at graduations, but also one for an award — makes me want to reread them all again, now that I might actually appreciate his words. “My Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now, one of the things […]
Star-Crossed Lovers for a modern age
I loved Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything (coming soon to a theater near you!). I wasn’t quite as drawn into this one, but still greatly enjoyed it and I feel like Yoon ended it perfectly. “There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.” […]
Read it for the puns, not the recipes
I have never watched Hannah Hart’s YouTube channel, in which she gets drunk and cooks things — although that does sound like fun. This book is not a cookbook, but rather a sort of rambling version of those videos (which presumably also ramble). She does include some recipes, but you’re not going to want to cook them, I promise. The puns are a lot of fun though, if you like your puns terrible and groan-worthy (as I do). “What do you call it when you drink […]
Nerdy overachievers unite!
Lovers of nerdy YA — this one’s for you. Trixie Watson and her friends are proud nerds who attend a school that puts a lot of academic pressure on its students. They handle it well (for the most part), and spend their precious free time making cosplay and reading comic books. Trixie’s thrown together with her sworn enemy, Ben West, when one of her friends starts dating one of his. The nerd references get just a bit heavy-handed throughout this novel, but overall I really enjoyed […]
Recommended for lovers of nifty charts
I’m going to sound like my dad here (who, incidentally, would love this), but this book was just really neat. I got a copy from the library, and it’s big and full of charts and infographics and pages that fold out. Just super cool, you guys. So Munroe (who writes the xkcd comic and also wrote the excellent What If) used to work for NASA, and as he explains in the introduction to Thing Explainer, he often resorts to big words in order to sound smart while explaining things (which […]
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