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 [...]
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Read ALL the Things!
I might identify a little much with Hyperbole and a Half’s brilliantly funny “This is Why I’ll Never Be an Adult.” Oddly enough, most everyone I know feels similarly, and that crowd includes some honest-to-goodness talented adults. But maybe some part of each of them is always screaming, “INTERNET! FOREVER…” Internet Forever is not exactly [...]
Awards don’t mean anything
That’s what everyone says, and when I say everyone, I include myself. But all the same, it’s nice to get a dollop of recognition — especially for reviews of books I absolutely loved. Last weekend, the Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon and Southwest Washington chapter, handed out its annual awards, and the Eugene Weekly swept the arts [...]
Selected Shorts and the stories we tell ourselves
At Symphony Space, when you finally get to the front of the slow-moving concessions line and order a beer, it might be handed to you in a red plastic Solo cup. (It might not; I saw a great exchange take place when a man accidentally pinged an older gent with his beer cap.) There’s something [...]
Lots of Love for Willy Vlautin
The news that Willy Vlautin won not one but two Oregon Book Awards last night made me raise my fists in delight — while sitting on the sofa in my empty living room. Vlautin’s books are among those I rant enthusiastically about to any friend who will listen, going on and on about the honesty, [...]
