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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]