On My Bedside Table To Read

…is a giant stack of books:
- The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 3 (Advance Reading Copy)
- Moral Disorder and Other Stories, Margaret Atwood
- Journal of a Novel, John Steinbeck (for when I re-read East of Eden)
- 2666, Roberto Bolano (almost finished book 1; books 2 and 3 taunt me)
- Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
- The [...]

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McCarthy March

I propose that you all embark with me on a mission: McCarthy March.
No, we’re not going to accuse everyone we know of being a dirty commie for the month of March.
Instead! I plan to read as many books by Cormac McCarthy in the month of March as I can. What do you all think? Fun? [...]

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Neil Gaiman Time

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book won the Newbery today. Yay! Tonight is devoted to finally reading it.
Read Gaiman’s Coraline yesterday, which I cannot recommend highly enough. It’s geared towards early teens, but really, it’s an anybody and everybody book. Just creepy and surreal enough, well done, and an awesome girl protagonist. What’s not to love? [...]

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Read a Fucking Book

…and get it from an independent bookstore while you’re at it.
My new favorite website.

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Priorities

List made last night to remind me why I shouldn’t spend crazy amounts of time doing stupid stuff online. Granted, I don’t have TV, and a therapist I once had recommended a half hour of mindless TV everyday — apparently it gets your mind to unravel — and internets are the closest thing I have. [...]

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Resolved

My New Years’s Resolutions are a break from the past — instead of resolutions that I’ll fall out of by February and feel guilty for all year, these are designed to be nice and compassionate with myself, and focus on cultivating this I already like about myself and do regularly.
So.
1. Take another stab at the [...]

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Resolved

If I’m not mistaken, the one resolution I made for myself this year was to read a book a week, or a total of 52 books for the year.
Right now — December 7, 2008 — I’m on my 39th book.
This means I can either:
1. Fail at my single resolution
2. Read 13 books by the end [...]

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Book Review: Knitting for Good

I’ve spent the past few days working through my copy of Knitting for Good, by Betsy Greer of Craftivism. (This is one of the benefits of working in a bookstore!) I’d like to fill you all in on what a great book this is, and some of the reasons why I think it’s a really [...]

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