Writer, Dabbler In Things
I’ve been pretty slammed this month — hey, when you’re still trying to work as much as you can to make up for being on strike for two weeks, and you’re still looking for other work, and your wife and kid head out of town for a week and you’ve got to take care of … Read more
A better month for reading, to be sure. Sadly, many starts and stops included, but I’ll take those any day over not getting a shot at reading enough at all, as in too many other months. ReadStarter Villain – John ScalziGreen Arrow, Vol. 1: The Death & Life of Oliver Queen – Writer: Benjamin Percy, … Read more
Despite it being a pretty crazy busy month, I read more in June than I have for a while. Mind you, much of that was started and stopped. But in some cases I read well into the books before finally dropping them, so hey, that’s still reading.It’s not satisfying reading, but it’s still reading.Beggars can’t … Read more
I’ve been working two part-time jobs for the last couple of years, and both underscored something to me I hadn’t encountered much previously: Companies don’t like their staff to casually read when they’re on the clock. And I sincerely don’t understand why. I think… I think?… that it’s what’s believed to be the optics of … Read more
Being the early Doggo Times, even without a lot of work happening, I haven’t had a lot of time to read — or to post anything… regular readers will notice I completely missed April in this series of posts and in fact didn’t even realize that until over a week into May — so it’s … Read more
I’m the first to admit I’m a slow reader. Painfully slow, sometimes. Slow enough that I’ve lost count of how many What I Read This Month posts have been effectively empty. ‘Working on the same thing I was last month’, is how those generally go.And here we are again. Lately I’ve been reading The Three … Read more
You know those occasions when you look at a new block of time — a day off of work, a week away from school, the new month of a new year — and just have a feeling that it’s going to be really productive? You’re gonna get so much done in that time! Yes.Well.You know … Read more
I didn’t get as much read as I wanted to this year. But arguably I never do.In no particular order, here are my top picks for what I read over the last twelve months. NoirChristopher Moore A comedic noir setting involving government agents, an alien crash landing, and a knockout dame named Stilton (like the … Read more
I recently recommended a book I was reading about a new take — or at least, a take now getting a bit more attention — about how bodies do what they do, and what happens to them that causes illnesses.Part of the heart of that book was that we’re eating too much too often. Ours … Read more
No books finished this month, sadly. In dealing with typically working seven days a week, and the unexpectedly hectic and involved process that is high school applications for the newly minted teen of the household, November was pretty jam-packed top to bottom. I’m still reading The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a … Read more