It has been a crazy summer. Lots of work, travel, website redos (crazy…), but also a lot of reading. With school just about set to open, and football season well under way, I thought I’d throw out a quick and dirty list of books I tackled this summer. There are some really great ones in […]
Books
Summer Reading
It’s been a great summer! Trips and relaxing and coaching- all have played a role- but I think the main thing that;s really ignited this summer has been reading. Yup, reading. The thing I do every single day of the year in small doses I have maxed out on this last month and a half. […]
Beloved, in Flames (sort of)
They’re banning books again. This time in Fairfax County, Virginia. The book is Beloved, by Toni Morrison. They’re not burning the book- not yet- but I’m still incensed. The full article from the Washington Post can be found here. The gist of the story is this: Laura Murphy, a concerned mother whose 17 year old […]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil So in the aftermath of the Hill I’ll Die On manifesto I just wrote, I decided to crawl up out of my uni-bomber bunker and watch a movie. I can only watch so much of […]
A Storyless Story
I just finished Scarlett Thomas’ latest novel, Our Tragic Universe, which got me thinking about fiction, story, the afterlife, new age religion, relationships, and the writing life. In short, this fascinating novel got the juices flowing, which, in the end, is what you hope good fiction will do. Meg, Thomas’ protagonist, is a genre writer […]
That Old Cape Magic
I love Cape Cod. I’ve been going there since I was sixteen, then with my parents, now with my children (and still my parents) to the house we have rented for the last fifteen years. So you can imagine the joy I felt when I purchased Richard Russo’s That Old Cape Magic for my mom […]