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I have the entire week leading up to Christmas off from work! I’ll be baking and cooking and wrapping gifts. I’ll be spending time with family. In between, I have some reading lined up and I hope to do some writing. I’ve got a few reviews to catch up, and some end-of-year pieces to prepare…but when they’re done, I won’t be posting them here. I’m taking a few days off from the blog in order […]
Luke Skywalker Can’t Read: And Other Geeky Truths Ryan Britt Plume (November 2015), trade paper (ISBN 0147517575 / 9780147517579) Nonfiction: pop culture/essays, 224 pages Source: publisher This post contains affiliate links to Indiebound. Just in time for the release of the seventh Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, Ryan Britt discusses this and other cornerstones of over fifty years of nerd culture in a collection of smart and occasionally snarky essays, Luke Skywalker Can’t […]
Charmed Particles: A Novel Chrissy Kolaya (Twitter) Dzanc Books (November 2015), trade paper (ISBN 1938103173 / 9781938103179) Fiction, 224 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (December 15, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and posted. This post contains affiliate links to Indiebound. In Charmed Particles, first-time novelist Chrissy […]
I was originally going to make this a Wordless Wednesday post, but since today’s prompt for #AMonthofFaves is Tue. | Dec. 15 – Favorite Holiday Festivities – show off your favorite ornaments, home decor, place to go, holiday drinks, holiday eats, holiday themed reads I thought I’d flesh it out a little more and join in the fun! We spent this Sunday afternoon getting the house decorated…which, quite honestly, is mostly just the tree, but I do save a few […]
Monday was exceptionally Monday-ish, Tuesday was unproductive for different reasons, but our CEO took the agency’s Leadership Team to lunch, and at least we got out of the office and the food we good. This was an appetizer. I’d have been fine with it all by itself! Wednesday was a day for catching up from Monday and Tuesday. Thursday was broken up by meetings. On Friday, I assigned some work to the new staff member who […]
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year Matt McCarthy (Twitter) Audiobook read by the author Crown (April 2015), hardcover (ISBN 9780804138659) Nonfiction: memoir, 336 pages Audiobook: Random House Audio (2015), ISBN 9781101889251 Source: Los Angeles Public Library, via Overdrive This post contains affiliate links to Indiebound. I was never inclined to pursue a medical career, but I find hospitals fascinating places, and medical memoirs have become one of my […]
Previously posted on The List App, where it was composed in something approximating real time A SPECTACULARLY UNPRODUCTIVE DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ACCOUNTING MANAGER (Or, further evidence of the existence of Monday and the hazards of technology) 5:00 AM: Get up with alarm (woke up about 30 minutes earlier, not on purpose) 6:35 AM: Leave for work (distance: 40 miles) 8:10 AM: Arrive at work, irritable from a 40-mile, 90-minute drive 8:20 AM: […]
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai, with Christina Lamb Audiobook read by Archie Panjabi Back Bay Books (2015), trade paper (ISBN 0316322423 / 9780316322423) Nonfiction: autobiography, 368 pages Source: purchased audiobook (Hachette Audio, 2013, ISBN 9781478979791) This post contains affiliate links to Indiebound. I spent a week last month reading the autobiography of a sixteen-year-old. The idea of a sixteen-year-old publishing an autobiography […]
It happens. A blogger succeeds at posting daily for 30 days, then disappears for nearly a week after it’s all over. I could say I felt like I’d earned the break, but that would only be a partial explanation. Since my father was released from the hospital on Thanksgiving Day, he’s needed more attention on a day-to-day basis. It’s fortunate that he, my sister, and I all live in the same town. It’s even more fortunate–for […]
Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox edited by Joanne Cronrath Bamberger (Twitter) She Writes Press (November 2015), trade paper (ISBN 1631528068 / 9781631528064) Nonfiction: politics/essays, 226 pages A version of this review was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (November 24, 2015). Shelf Awareness provided me with a publisher-furnished galley to facilitate the review, and compensated me for the review they received and posted. This post contains affiliate links to Indiebound. […]
(A version of the following was originally published here in 2014. Images used with permission.) I work with words online, but in my offline life, my job involves working with numbers. I’m one of those “bean counters” in the Accounting Office getting in the way of your creative ideas because there’s not enough money to do them. I have attempted to compensate for the dry soullessness of my profession by using my powers for good–that is, […]
