What is Columbine to you? Before April 20th, 1999, Columbine was simply a school to most people, if not the flower for which it was named. After the devastating shooting that took 13 lives and terrorized hundreds more, Columbine was a symbol of mass murder and disaster. Maybe you have heard of Columbine, maybe you haven’t. But whatever Columbine was to you before reading this book, will surely change. Columbine is a media driven narrative. As the events of the Columbine shooting unfolded, that narrative […]
This kid has had a rough life, I tell you what.
I shoulda done the audio on this one. I’m so used to hearing Hannah’s voice from her own mouth (long time My Drunk Kitchen watcher, since episode 5), I’m sure it would have smoothed over the issues I had with the style this one is written in. It felt simultaneously overwritten and underwritten at various points, like the voice wasn’t completely comfortable with itself. But any issues with the writing aside, it’s hard not to get sucked in to Hannah’s story. She tells it in […]
Cheese! Cheese! Cheese
It was probably unwise to start a book dedicated to cheese right after I made a resolution to start eating more healthy. I was completely unable to handle the descriptions of all the many cheeses as I waited for my lunch hour. My carefully prepared healthy meal suddenly seemed woefully inadequate after the descriptions of delicious and luxurious sounding milky delights. And while this book is not entirely what I expected, I learned a lot about American cheese production that I never knew before. […]
Admitting to failure and the learning from it
I got this book very cheap on a deal on audible, and I wasn’t even sure what it was about when I first started on it, but it gripped my attention right from the start, and it didn’t disappoint. I’m not a great non-fiction reader, but I always enjoy it when I found the odd non-fiction book that reads like a good narrative. This book does exactly that. It starts by providing an example of an avoidable mistake, and comparing two very different approaches to […]
Run, Read This, And Go Tell That
Wow. Just wow. I saw this movie two weeks ago and was blown away by it. Reading the book just gave me even more details about the African American women who came out as human computers (I had no idea that was where the word computers came from, they computed so were seen as computers) and helped shaped the United States space program. Shetterly has historian disease (yeah I use to suffer from this as well, historians unite!) so the flow was off a few […]
There are good doors and bad doors.
I have this thing with doors. I find doors tricky, especially the automated and revolving kind. I live close to a mall with a small set of revolving doors, slowly they go round and round and you’re walking up the doors adjusting your walking speed according to the perceived speed of the current revolving of said doors. Then just as you reach the doors, they speed up making it so that I must always sort of jump into the revolution as if it were a […]
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