I thought when Blogger came out with their official widget to display popular posts it would be a great addition to my blog. Like for many other people though, the…
Our writing group meets for the first time in two weeks. Before we meet, I need to email a story to the members. Goal for the week: write a rough…
The first one was so good, (thanks for the birthday present) that I've ordered two more off Amazon. Shipped today; can't wait to read them.
"Something Pretty, Something Beautiful" by Eric Barnes reads like A Clockwork Orange set in Tacoma, Washington minus Burgess' style. The story is full of teenage violence, angst, and a desire…
Just watched La Jetée and loved it. If you've seen Twelve Monkeys, (and maybe read The Time Traveler's Wife) this film is where ideas were borrowed.
Librarians face an awesome task in preserving human knowledge. As defenders of our collective cultural heritage, we have come up with disaster response plans for situations like floods and fires.…
"Always Raining Somewhere, Said Jim Johnson" by John Edgar Wideman is a story that revisits a writer's experience at the Iowa Writing Workshop. Fiction? Nonfiction? It doesn't matter. While Wideman…
I'd heard of The Walking Dead, but haven't read any comics for quite a few years. My source for comic books had always been my childhood friend who now co-owns…
If you're a reader who likes plot points neatly tied and convention followed, this book is not for you. Point Omega by Don DeLillo revolves around a character named Elster,…
I picked City of Glass off the bookcase because I heard Paul Auster interviewed on Radiolab. In the interview he described getting a phone call, after the novel was published,…