Since my local library didn’t have Being Mortal yet, I picked up The Checklist Manifesto also by Atul Gawande, instead. It’s a short read, even shorter since I skimmed quite a few of the anecdotes regarding how to use checklists, but I did manage to pick up a few good tips for approaching projects and managing them more successfully. Gawande writes with an accessible style, which helps make what is essentially a one page outline worth pushing on through for 200+ pages. Gawande’s advice is straightforward […]
A Most Excellent Krimble for Books, and a Holiday Tweet from one of my fave artist/authors!
Opened my Cannonball Read gift today from the lovely Ashlie! Thank you so much! Your choices are excellent (love the buttons too!), and I guess I’m gonna have to sign up for CBR7 now. Also, I got a “Merry Chrimbo” tweet from Grayson Perry (@AlanMeasles) after I tweeted out that I also got his latest book today—a gift from Mr Smith. Smiling from ear to ear!
A Never Let Me Go For the Senior Set
I’ve never been a fan of dystopian YA fiction and I guess the opposite of that would be SA or senior adult fiction with a dystopian twist, which is what The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist would be. The premise of the story caught me a little off guard, but as a Never Let Me Go, senior citizen edition, I was pretty impressed. When Dorrit Weger moves into the Second Reserve Bank Unit as a permanent resident, she has few expectations beyond having a secure place […]
A sadly relevant tale: the 1970 murder of an innocent black man by three white men
The state of North Carolina is a perfect example of “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” In Blood Done Sign My Name, Tim Tyson recounts a story from his youth in Oxford, NC in which a young black man is murdered by three white men, all of whom were fully acquitted by a white jury. The heart of Tyson’s story is the 1970 murder of Henry Marrow, a black Vietnam veteran with a wife, two children, and another on the way. […]
Detailed answers to questions you’ve never thought to ask.
I’ll admit, I zipped through What if? by Randall Munroe pretty quickly. It’s an interesting idea for a book and some of the questions Munroe answers were strangely fascinating. Unfortunately, I don’t have much patience for lengthy sciency-wiency explanations, so sometimes I would sort of drift off, or skim the answers. I definitely felt smarter when I got to the end though and I’m just waiting to show off next time someone asks me an absurd hypothetical question. Munroe is an entertaining writer and I […]
Never, ever house sit for a friend.
Care of Wooden Floors was recommended to me by Mr Smith (@changeist), and for that I will be eternally grateful. While it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, Will Wiles’ first novel was one of the best books I read this year. Told mostly through interior monologues and observation, Wiles’ nameless protagonist sets off on a journey to hell by agreeing to housesit for an orchestra conductor friend, (who’s not really a friend) as he must leave his East European home country to begin […]
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