So, there’s a page of literary jokes that got passed around my college classes in the before-time, in the long ago. I’m pretty sure they weren’t new then, and my college years are a decade past me. But the shtick was each author’s answer to why the chicken crossed the road, and Hemingway’s was “to die. In the rain.” Tom Perotta writes like that Hemingway joke. I love his books, but a compendium of his short stories may have been a poor choice on my […]
Go AWAY, Daniel.
It’s become somewhat fashionable to dogpile on Lena Dunham, but she always seemed like the dark side of Jennifer Lawrence to me – quirky, outspoken, maybe a wee bit too invested in being both those things and not quite invested enough in self reflection despite all the self involvement – and to be frank, I assumed that much of the backlash was from having that attitude without being Hollywood-pretty. (I mean she IS gorgeous, but she’s not a size zero, and for a female celebrity […]
Well, that was a book.
So, when my husband and I watch a movie that seems to have had no point – spoiler alert, they’re almost always French – we turn to one another and have some variation of the same conversation. “Well, that was a movie.” ”yep.” ”it was movie length, and pictures moved across the screen.” ”mhmmm.” I love Margaret Atwood (the octothorplet was nearly named Atwood), and this book was neither good nor bad, it was a book. It was book length, and words were printed on […]
Here am I sitting in a tin can
Writing this review from my husband’s truck because a) sleeping baby and b) that’s where I found the book after accidentally marooning it in the door panel (appropriate, misplacing this book, no?) and had to finish it ASAP. It’s a testament to Weir’s skill at crafting a tale that I couldn’t wait to finish it despite knowing all the story beats from having watched the movie first. I even got anxious that the probe I knew would fail from having literally watched it explode on […]
Read it… you know… soonish.
Zach Weinersmith is the writer behind the delightful Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic, and with his wife wrote and researched this book on emerging technologies. If you’re a fan of the comic, you’ll enjoy this book, if you’re unfamiliar with it … fix it: http://www.smbc-comics.com. It’s pretty much the only comic I go out of my way to read daily. The authors do a spectacular job making the cutting edge of science – by their very nature as developing fields difficult to explain and understand – […]
Apt that the book prompting this was Fangirl
You guys, I loved this book. Like, a stupid amount. I loved this book so much it gave me the warm fuzzies. I loved it so much I wanted to be a teen again, and NO THANKS to that. I loved it so much I saved reading it for bad days despite wanting to eat it in one go like a cupcake. I loved, loved, loved this book like I was Roger Ebert’s evil twin reviewing the movie North. What I’m saying is this is […]
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