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Here are two things you may not know about me. 1. I love Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It is my absolute, favorite holiday story, a position formed by multiple viewings of multiple versions of the tale courtesy of the UHF stations of my youth. It seemed then that at any point of the Christmas season [...] First order of business: today is International Beer Day. I trust you are all intent on doing your part. Second order of business: NPR’s annual summer reading poll concerns fantasy and science fiction. You can help them whittle down the field to the top 100. Carl V. covers the flaws of the list pretty well, [...] I think I’m going to have put aside Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Three or so months ago I mentioned I might pick it up as my next non-fiction read, and I did, and I have made little progress since. I don’t think the fault is with the book itself. Rebecca West is a fine [...] The whole thing started innocently enough, as these things usually do, with a trip to the library. It was intended to be a quick trip and it was a quick trip, but somehow I managed to exit the library with three new books. At least they were borrowed, not bought. I picked up Eye of [...] Fermor, Patrick Leigh (1977). A Time of Gifts. NY: The New York Review of Books. 316 pages. The Library of Congress cataloging data just inside the cover of A Time of Gifts lists the subject headings of ‘Europe-Description and travel’ and ‘Europe, Central-Description and travel’ but one could just as easily describe it as part [...] I found this meme at the Boston Bibliophile, although it apparently originated at Stuck In A Book. Play along if the spirit so moves you. 1. The book I’m currently reading. My current fiction read is Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin. I bought this book several years ago, when John Scalzi praised it on his [...] One thing about convalescing, you can get a lot of reading done. And so, here’s a brief review. DeVoto, Bernard (1948). The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto. NY: TinHouse Books. 127 pages. When he wasn’t winning Pulitzers or National Book Awards, Bernard DeVoto penned this brief ode to the joys of the cocktail. Long out of [...] The reading list for 2010 is updated and closed. The reading list for 2011 is now open. In December of 2009 my to-be-read pile number about 190. This December past it stood at about 220. I attribute this jump not only to a lack of time to read in general, but to the large of [...] I have here some odds and ends for your consideration and possible enjoyment. First – yet more pictures of the Rocket, mostly from a trip to the Paragon Carousel. With which she was completely unimpressed. Also in the imagery line – a collection of covers of vintage men’s magazines. Which taken as a whole seem [...] And here we are at the end of the series. Fifteenth in a series of fifteen. Spinelli, Jerry (2000). Stargirl. NY: Random House. 186 pages. Evaluation and summary: Leo Borlock is an unremarkable guy at an unremarkable high school. In fact, pretty much everyone at Micah High School is unremarkable, and they like it that [...] We’re almost through – fourteenth in a series of fifteen. Gaiman, Neil (2007). M is for Magic. NY: HarperCollins. 260 pages. Evaluation and summary: On the face of it, a book of short stories for young adults seems like a fine idea. The notion certainly has a distinguished pedigree, going back to (at least) Mr. [...] Lucky thirteen brings us back to New York. Thirteenth in a series of fifteen. Krovatin, Christopher (2005). Heavy Metal And You. NY: Scholastic. 186 pages. Evaluation and summary: Sammy Markus is a high school student who really likes two things: heavy metal music, and getting fall-down drunk with his friends. All is well in his [...] We return to present day England for the next title. Twelfth in a series of fifteen. McCaughrean, Geraldine (2005). The White Darkness. NY: Harper Teen, 369 pages. Evaluation and summary: What can I say about The White Darkness without giving away too much away? My professor has obviously read the book – she assigned it [...] Next stop – the Republic of Vietnam, 1967. Eleven in a series of fifteen. Myers, Walter Dean (1988). Fallen Angels. NY: Scholastic. 309 pages. Evaluation and summary: Seventeen year old Richie Perry can’t afford to go to college, so he takes another way out of Harlem: he joins the army. The army promptly sends him [...] Book ten brings us to Australia and the first reading response journal entry to reference the movie Red Dawn. Tenth in a series of fifteen. Marsden, John (1993). Tomorrow, When The War Began. NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. 286 pages. Evaluation and summary: Ellie and her best friend Corrie plan a camping trip into the wilds [...] |
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