Hi, internet! It’s kind of been a while. In fact, it’s been so long that I have this urge to refer to Read ALL the Things as a neglected character: Read ALL the Things has been busy. Read ALL the Things decided to do things besides reading all the things. The things have simply been [...]
Author Archive > molly
On ‘Shame’
My feelings are best expressed by Crash and the Boys: Also, Michael Fassbender and Jon Hamm: separated at birth, or what?
Read ALL the Things: What I read when I’m not reading what I’m reading
I want to post about both Torchwood and A Dance with Dragons, but I find myself not having a lot to say about either — yet. I’m still stewing. I probably just need to clean the house, and that’ll shake the thoughts free. In the meantime, I’ve read a few things while not carrying around [...]
Intermission, with READY PLAYER ONE
I’m smothering myself in things I love, right now, and I’ve got this crushed-out, almost-butterflies feeling in my stomach — a feeling that’s like sparkling possibility and nervousness and I know this one; I know it really well. It eludes me, from time to time, where things and falling in love with them is concerned. [...]
Still in Westeros: ‘A Dance with Dragons’ (1/4)
The lesson: Never decide that a book is too heavy to carry around, for lo, you will find yourself reading many other books, as public transit is a wonderful place to read. The result: I’m making very slow headway throne A Dance With Dragons. But enough of that! Enough of the three other books I’ve finished [...]
Remembering William Sleator
When I got my first job, in the marketing department at Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, the prospect of working with kids’ and teen books was exciting enough to have me giddy and nervous and delighted on a regular basis. Then they handed me the key to the bookroom. This bookroom, before the office [...]
What’s Wrong with Torchwood?
The first episode of the second season of Torchwood opens with a blowfish driving a sports car. It doesn’t really look that much like a blowfish, but I’ll take Gwen Cooper’s word for it. This sequence — go on; it’s only a minute — sums up a lot of the initial charm of Torchwood, the [...]
Read All the … Other Things
So as it turns out, maybe, when you’ve decided that your summer reading (and beyond) project is to read all the books on your to-read shelf, the best thing to do is NOT get yourself engrossed in a 5000 page (and counting) fantasy epic. Translation: What I should’ve posted a month ago: BRB, going to [...]
Read ALL the Things: Valente, Murakami, Martin
Books added to the Shelf of Doom since last post: Embassytown, China Mieville; Pretty Hate Machine, Daphne Carr. To give myself more credit than necessary, I did order PHM before beginning this quest. Currently reading: Didion, Didion, Didion Summer does something to ambition. Or maybe that’s just me; I’ve spent my working life on either [...]
Not lacking for kitchen knives
On his birthday, I tell my father about toting my Global knife — a present from him — to my boyfriend’s house in order to slice vegetables for dinner. I wrapped it in a napkin my mother made in the ’70s, though I left this detail out during the phone call, and carried it and [...]
