All year I've been dragging on my reading for the Foodie's Reading Challenge. In the later part of the year I even started to wonder why I'd joined. And then I started reading for it. (Inspired by Dewey's Read-a-Thon.) This is why I join challenges; they seem to keep my
Today I'm reading all day, inspired by Amanda's Read-a-Thon. It's perfect timing for me. And you can see my stack of books below, but more about that in a minute. First, I'm thrilled to announce that Jennifer D. has snagged the new copy of the paperback edition of The Heroine's
Actually, they are freaking hilarious in the hands of Joey Comeau. But I just need to back up a bit. I need to say that, since I started my Fridays are for Letters, I have only read two of the books that I planned to read. Stuff happens
Adam Gopnik's notes for this lecture/chapter read like this: "Chance to talk at length about ice hockey." If the idea doesn't thrill you, don't let it put you off the book entirely. The rest of that page and the next is about the Russian troika "racing through the snowy wastes".
How can you resist the subtitle of Grace Dane Mazur's Hinges? It's Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination. Well, you can't resist it. Not if you're book-ish, and especially not if you're also writer-ish. If book-ish was in the book's index, you might see a reference to
