I won Peter and Max from Cecelia of adventures of cecelia bedelia – thank you! I was having a terrible day, and when I got home I had not one, BUT TWO packages on my doorstep. One was Peter and Max, and the other was a package of two books and a bookmark from Jeane. It was amazing. It caused my day to stop being terrible, and be awesome instead. (True story.) If you haven’t read Fables, you should really do that. In fact, go do that now, and when you have finished, you may come back and we can…
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In case you are wondering: 1. I cried several tears of happiness. 2. I have only a very small, croaky voice left. 3. We will have to think up new hell-froze-over jokes. 4. There is much street-dancing, horn-honking, screaming, and fireworks. I BELIEVE THIS MEANS THAT LENT IS CANCELED. I AM HAPPY. WHO DAT!
17 CommentsWow, it has been a long time since I read Lord of the Rings. I own a shiny hardback box set of them, which I got on sale at Bongs & Noodles for $15, and which I now discover are the editions with fold-out maps in the back. I want to snip the maps out with careful snips and hang them around my room – except I know my snips would not be tidy, and even if they were, the maps would get all Blue-Tac-y in the corners and need to be folded up and stored next time I move,…
20 CommentsNot a reflection on the quality of Committed, but just something I thought of when I started reading it: I feel like the premise of the book could be tweaked a bit to make it into an obnoxious little romantic comedy starring one of those actresses that do “quirky” roles. Elizabeth Gilbert, successful journalist and bestselling author, never wants to get married again! Until a US immigration officer gives her a deadline: Get married in the next year or be an exile forever! If this were a movie, she would spend the year meeting wildly unsuitable guys and ignoring her…
19 CommentsWhat do you know? Life sends such unexpected blessings (and this review contains lots of spoilers). I reread The Hobbit for the first time since I was small, and didn’t want to stab anybody in the eyes. Except for the dwarves in the beginning; and then Gandalf throughout because, frankly, who made him the king of the world? He just gets to decide that Bilbo would be good on an adventure and risk his whole life to get a couple of bags of gold? When it all works out, Gandalf nods and winks and makes wry comments about how good…
8 CommentsI am having an absolute orgy of reading today. So far today I have read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed, the book of this website, Peter and Max (well, I finished Peter and Max, I didn’t start it today), The First Part Last, and The Pinhoe Egg. IT IS AMAZING. I started around nine-forty this morning, and I just cannot believe how quickly these books are zipping by me. I am taking a break now because I can’t decide which of my books to read next. When I went to the library for The First Part Last, which I’ve wanted to read…
21 CommentsRecommended by Annie the Superfast Reader. Don’t Sleep There are Snakes chronicles missionary/anthropologist Daniel Everett’s time with the Pirahã tribe in Brazil. As a young linguist, Everett moved to Brazil with his family to learn the Pirahã language and translate the Bible into Pirahã, thus to spread the Good News of the Lord. In learning the language and spending time with the tribe, he found that the Pirahã are so focused on immediacy of experience that they were completely uninterested in the Bible. They shook his faith. Going in, I thought this was going to be a personal memoir about Everett’s faith and…
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