Category Archives: Books
The real function of the internet
Yesterday I brought up the old adage that all quotes are either from the Bible or Shakespeare. Last night I was thinking about this. Before the internet, how did we know whether any particular quote was Shakespeare or Scripture? If … Continue reading
Filed under Nonfiction, Books, Memoir, Sentiment, Awesome, Technology
50 Shades of Awful
I get kind of worked up about bad writing. Particularly about bad writing that makes all the bestseller lists. Especially when this bad writing really serves no purpose. And when everyone is talking about it, even though they all admit … Continue reading
Filed under "Other people", Books, Celebrities, Fashion, Not awesome, Self improvement
Shelve all the things
Last night Erin came over to the new place to help me go through this: After about an hour and a half, we took a break to get some water (and seconds of pizza) and admire how far we’d … Continue reading
Filed under Awesome, Books, Friends, Home improvements, Love
Better late than never
Drew and I are in the middle of moving, as I keep mentioning. In fact we have given ourselves a goal of being completely out of here and living there by next Sunday. Which is slightly daunting. This afternoon he went … Continue reading
Filed under Beginnings, Being a girl, Books, Home improvements, Sentiment, Writing
The King of the Bookshelf
I pretty much adore Stephen King. I think I’ve made that evident. This is his author photo from his latest novel, 11/22/63. I think he looks remarkably like an older, fuller-cheeked version of my dad. Stephen King, if you read this, I … Continue reading
21 in 2 months
After yesterday’s post about how I have bought too many books since Jan 1st, a friend asked me to list them all. So here goes! These are the ones I bought from Amazon with a gift card: Cell by Stephen … Continue reading
Filed under Being a girl, Books, Dreams, Fashion, Food, Friends, Love, Nonfiction, Religion, Self improvement, Sentiment, Writing
I will trade social media for books any day of the week.
I gave up Facebook for Lent. I wasn’t going to give up anything, because as usual it snuck up on me, but then my uncle made an offhand comment (a Facebook status, actually), that “I guess none of us gave … Continue reading
Filed under Being a girl, Books, Nonfiction, Religion
Where I criticize a published writer, but by what right?
So, this is the first time in 2011 that I went over 7 days without posting. It’s been busy here, y’all. I’ve been reading, among other books, this book that I got at the Palo Alto Borders at like 90% off … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Drew, Not awesome, Writing
