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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Read ALL the Things: Revisiting Ellen Gilchrist
Forgive me, internet, for I have slipped. It had been … at least a month since I last bought a book. Yesterday I bought two. Does anyone remember Nick Hornby’s delightful Believer column in which he documented what he read vs. what he bought? This project definitely threatens to slip into that territory. For the [...]
Fish, Barrel: YA vs. WSJ
Not for the first time, I feel a little like I’ve been trolled by a major newspaper. Just recently, we had The New York Times‘ inane Game of Thrones review (it’s for boys and the “sexy” bits were added to lure women); the NYT again with a review declaring that YA fiction’s purpose is to [...]
Read ALL the Things: The prequel
It’s a prequel for a very simple reason: My mind likes to make up complicated rules, and one of those, for this game, is that books that I’ve picked up in the last few weeks that never made it to the Shelf of Doom, well, they don’t count. (And books I borrow from elsewhere don’t [...]
