Here is my awesome genius niece Lily, demonstrating that her cranial capacity is far beyond the average 2.62 year old. Not only does she know her alphabet without fail, but she’s also unlocked achivements Bossy Toddler, Camera Mug, Killer Rock and Roll Face and Cutest Storyteller Ever. Pete the Cat is her favorite story and [...]
Check it out, Dudes. The Abide Guide is here: While I only contributed a few passages to one chapter, I’m super stoked to have written words that are now ink on paper in like, a real book that you can get in a bookstore. Ultimately I’d love to have my name as the primary author [...]
I recently began an (almost) daily study of the Tao Te Ching recently. (The Jonathan Star translation — check it out dudes, it rocks.) Life has been a bit like a hurricane for me over the last several months, and I’d like to see if I can find a nice quiet place at the eye [...]
Today at the office we are celebrating Towel Day with a lunchtime reading of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And brownies. Douglas Adams was the first author who made me think that maybe after all I could become a writer. I’d been plagued with self-doubt for most of my life, which kept me from [...]
Bravo, Topless Robot: “Topless Robot is of the opinion that this book is a cash grab by the late Douglas Adams’ wife, that Douglas Adams was so individual a writer that no one could or should try to replicate him, and that And Another Thing should be avoided at all costs. If there was a [...]
Disclaimer: I was predisposed to like this one from the beginning, so it’s fair enough to call me a partial and prejudiced reviewer. Jane Austen is often called the first feminist fiction writer, and a new take on her most popular Regency romance — coauthored by Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Kenneth Grahame — puts the [...]
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood ISBN 0-7710-0813-9 Summary A dystopian tale describing the life of a woman living in the mid-1980′s in Gilead, a fundamentalist Christian society that rose from the destruction of the United States after a coup. The tale is told out of order with a present tense first narrative voice, and is [...]
