A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
This week’s Weekly Geek challenge is to write your own holiday gift giving guide of books. Dewey asked participants to think about the books you read, come up with categories for the books, and post a guide with blurbs about the books and categories you’ve chosen. I’m going to do my book recommendations based on [...]
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I love being an English nerd that understands obscure literary references. Brownie points for anyone else who knows what short story this comic from xkcd refers to! Click on this link for the answer.
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Stephen King has an article in Entertainment Weekly called “Who Days Real Men Don’t Read?” where he talks about the publishing industries perception that men don’t read. Even though most current bestsellers are written by women, King says the idea that men who read are disappearing is false. King also has some gender ideas about [...]
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I wrote a post about how inspiring I found Joan Didion while I was in the middle of reading Slouching Towards Bethlehem last month, but have been putting off a review because I’m not sure what else to say. I loved the book when I finished it, started to dislike it while we discussed it [...]
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After quitting the British Imperial Police Force in 1927, Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) moved to Paris and tried to write about the oppressed. His experiences as a member of the working poor over the next several years became the basis of his first work of literary journalism, Down and Out in Paris and London. [...]
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Do ever have books that, as much as you want to be engaged with them, you just can’t seem to make the jump to get into it? The topic, while interesting, just doesn’t grab you today? That’s how I’ve been feeling trying to read Niche Envy by Joseph Turrow. I really want to be into [...]
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Right now I’m working on a feature story about independent bookstores and how they are preparing for the holiday shopping season. One owner I talked to is going into her first holiday season owning her store and said she’s excited, but also nervous because she’s not sure what to expect. Another told me he’d been [...]
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Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers is the fourth comic in the Fables series by Bill Willingham. This is the longest comic so far in the series, but it tells a huge story, develops characters, and ends with a great cliffhanger. To get caught up with Fables, you can read my previous reviews: Legends in [...]
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At the end of October I had a celebration for my 100th blog post and decided to host my first giveaway. I asked people to comment, link to the post, and otherwise help me think about my blog. The winner of a book of their choice from my blog is Care from Care’s Online Book [...]
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