Upcoming Kurt Vonnegut Binge – Got a favorite?

Okay, I’m about to start reading all of Kurt Vonnegut’s books again. It’s been too long. From now until whenever I can finish, I’m going to try and read one per week and get the reviews up on the blog. Today, if you please, tell me your favorite(s) if you have one(several) and I’ll take [...]

January 9, 2012 READ MORE →

Dorothy Whipple’s Chick Lit of the 1940s – Guest post by Emily Petersen

By Emily January Petersen, author of what is still one of my most popular posts, the Olive Kitteridge review. One of my guilty pleasures is reading chick lit.  Although I consider myself a serious student of literature, I have read all of Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic series, and I thoroughly enjoyed Something Borrowed and Something Blue [...]

January 6, 2012 READ MORE →

Book by Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is one of my favorite writers. His earlier books are a lot stranger than his most recent few, but his tone is unmistakable, whatever he’s writing, in this humble librarian’s opinion. I got a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas. I drove there the next days and had taken The Ecstasy of [...]

January 6, 2012 READ MORE →

Poll: Best Movies and Books about Revenge?

I do like a good tale of vengeance and mayhem. Today you are tasked with helping me put together a list of the best movies and books about revenge, unless you’re too squeamish or you aren’t going to let me boss you around on the Internet. But for the rest of you who love revenge [...]

January 5, 2012 READ MORE →

What was the First Music Album you ever Bought?

On New Year’s Eve I was looking through a box of my old tapes an CDs. Someone at our house said “My first tape was Wilson Phillips.” And the conversation spiraled on from there. I bought my first cassette tape in sixth grade: LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out. Such were the times. [...]

January 4, 2012 READ MORE →

Life After Depression – Guest post by Shane Van Oosterhout

At seventeen I visited my first shrink, an elderly widowed woman who explained the anal phase while offering fresh-squeezed lemonade. As I spoke of knotty terrors and homosexual impulses she encouraged me to see cause and effect. Perhaps if I could choose not to be gay the “conflicting” emotions would clear up the same way [...]

January 2, 2012 READ MORE →

Hyperwear Sandbell Review

All I knewwas that the package was heavy and the person who had sent it to me knew that I loved to try out new strength and conditioning gadgets. When I dumped the two lumps out on the floor and took the paper off I wasn’t sure what I was looking at.  If I had [...]

December 28, 2011 READ MORE →

The Best Philosophy Books are on the Kindle for Free

My post about the list of free Kindle books was a hit, but it quickly became unwieldy and the comments proved to be more helpful than the list I was making. I’m going to start writing a series of posts that provide starter lists of free Kindle book across various categories and genres. Luckily, some [...]

December 27, 2011 READ MORE →

My First Attempt at a Cross Stitch

Okay, after this post my December vacation starts. My editor friend Betsy Rapoport just posted a photo of the cross stitch I made for her, so I’m going to share it as well. The words are a quotation from Betsy. She was mentally rehearsing the email she would send to anyone who wasn’t sold on [...]

December 20, 2011 READ MORE →

December Vacation

Hey all, I’m taking the rest of December off. I’m in a good groove with the book and am going to make a big push at it between now and January. Merry Christmas and thank you for another great year. Josh

December 20, 2011 READ MORE →
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