I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Last week I did Jeff Lemire’s Roughneck. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas is a standalone novel in the Agatha Christie Poirot mystery series. She’s most famous for Murder on the Orient Express, in […]
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I’m not sure how to explain it, but I’m trying to look at the best of the best books that I read and see them as a librarian might–who needs this book? who would love it? I read this one recently and was very impressed. Roughneck is a standalone graphic novel by Jeff Lemire, who does a
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I’m always looking for new books to read, while building up impossible lists of books to read. So I’m wiping out the various wishlists (mostly) and gathering them here, while ruthlessly cutting them down. Soon, I’ll post the list of recommended reading I got lately, from other people. Nonfiction: Rats: Observations on the History &
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I asked for recommended reading for books written since 2000. (I’ve been reading a lot of best-of lists, which tend to be 20+ years behind the times.) Here what I got. I marked the racy romances in case you’re around THOSE kind of people, the ones who disapprove of things as a hobby. Fiction: Jonathan
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So it’s official: I’ve finished Flavorwire’s 50 Scariest Books of All Time, from beginning to end. It’s been about three years, although I didn’t start out focusing on this one; I’ve been working on several horror lists with MB Partlow and Shannon Lawrence. The Nightmare Magainze’s Top 100 is another, which is done, and up
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I consider Die Hard to be a Chrismas movie. I asked for other people’s suggestions to add to my list. I got suggestions that had nothing to do with the winter holidays, some that were traditional Christmas movies (some of which I’ll include, oh well), and a few that people started getting snarky about because they weren’t
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A selection of the best books I read in November, which, admittedly, still isn’t done yet but close enough: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nahisi Coates. A series of essays, framed as a letter written to his son, on the poisonous Dream of a white America. Just amazing. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan.
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I was eating a bunch of clementines the other day, and one of them smelled off. Last year, I got a bag of clementines with a number of fruits that were just bad. Eventually I ditched the whole bag–well, first I shoved it in the fridge and pretended it wasn’t there for a month. It
I asked on Facebook what nonfiction books they would recommend for becoming a better citizen of the world/universe. It sounded like a fun thing to ask; I like to ask for recommendations. Over a hundred and forty books later… Please note that I am not a trained bibliographer and you’re lucky you’re not just getting
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The whole collection is live! Oct 31: TRICK OR TREAT It is a thousand years from now. Whenever now is, it’s a thousand years after that. A cure for mortality has been created—crafted—perfected. Humanity has moved to the stars. Why not? We have literally nothing better to do than to explore the
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