I just remembered that today is Sunday and that I need to write a Sunday Salon post! Today has been, perhaps, my most unproductive Sunday since I started school. Of course that would happen on the Sunday before my last week of classes! It’s not totally my fault — I slept terribly last night because [...]
In August I read and reviewed Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, a nonfiction, memoirish book about the world of competitive Scrabble. I loved the book, so when I heard there was a documentary about a similar topic, I started to look for it. I came across it at the video store yesterday and jumped at [...]
I got a lot of really interesting questions about Stardust by Neil Gaiman on my first Weekly Geeks #12 post. Since this is a book I read earlier this year, I’m going to expand the WG questions into a longer review. Andi from AndiLit asked: What did you think of Stardust? Everyone raves about it [...]
I’m not much of a movie person, so the fact that I’ve now seen two movies in two weeks is an anomaly. I wouldn’t normally post reviews or thoughts on movies, but I had such strong reactions to both of them I thought it would be appropriate. The first movie I saw was Persepolis, an [...]