Sometimes a book is just too close to home. The main character was a web and graphic designer and the story ends up being a mystery solved by an old-fashioned movable cast metal typeface. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan is set squarely in current-day Google-obsessed San Francisco. The bookstore is narrow, 3-stories tall […]
When I go to Costco, I try to make one meal a week easier on me and buy a ready-to-cook pizza. I come home and heat the oven while I’m unloading groceries from Farmers Market, Costco, and Vons. Ten minutes later, bam, lunch is ready to go. Today as I’m transferring the pizza from the
Health experts tout all the things we should do to stay fit and well: eat organic low fat food, exercise regularly, get regular checkups, blah blah blah. I drank the purple kool-aid years ago on these recommendations but the one that I can’t implement is the “get 8 hours of sleep” action item. Eating and
Elysium, the recent Matt Damon as good guy/ Jodie Foster as bad guy Sci-fi movie was a piece of summer entertainment. Earth is a wasteland of people with few resources who speak Spanish while Elysium is the space station where the English and French speaking folk live with all luxuries of life. The two habitats
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I saw the movie The Help in 2011 on the big screen. I enjoyed it then so when the audio-book was available in preparation for a long car drive, I decided to take the opportunity to visit with these characters again. There are multiple stories being told in Mississippi of different classes and relationships. The
