On a walk and talk with a GF, when I told her about my adventures in Second Life, she recommended Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The story, set in 2044, shows a society that spends more time in an online avatar driven world called OASIS, than they do in real life. When the creator […]
Where I have been and where I am going… Books Past: 7 non-fiction books, 32 fiction. I like that escape thing. I did meet my 2014 goal of reading all Jane Austen novels. I understand the genre and have enjoyed parody books and movies about Austen. Future: With 2 book clubs, friends giving me books,
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham interested me because I enjoyed Dunham’s movie Tiny Furniture and her HBO series Girls. On one hand she is a raw, unabashed, tell-it-like-it-is young woman and on the other hand she’s a train wreck that I can’t seem to
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I never considered that I had an issue with spiders. I would scoff at people who couldn’t shoo a spider out of the house or couldn’t kill/remove a spider. It’s just a household pest like flies or silverfish. I’ve been the primary spider killer in my house (I also remove dead and partially consumed rodents
“Slurring is the cursive of speech…” Rules of Civility by Amor Towles was the December book club choice. Set in 1938, this story follows Katie Kontent (pronounced content as in happy) as a young, single, working girl trying to find her way in NY city. Starting out in a boarding house, as a typist, and
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