Meant to write a more thematic entry, but am feeling pretty under the weather after spending yesterday rolling down hills in a giant hamster ball filled with water whilst wearing a bathing suit in 10-degree-Celsius weather. Uh… I mean, shana tova, and stay tuned for something more appropriate to the…
Sorry. I’m working on a more essay-type blogs for the next few weeks, I swear. But in case you need your mind to be blown right the heck now: when I was at Dollarama the other day, one of the Hallowe’en decorations they had for sale was a plastic SKULL…
A new format! Check it! IN THIS EDITION: (click on the link to jump to the micro review) Books non-fiction: 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God (** – found interesting) Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (***** – loved) YA/MG fiction: The Thirteenth Child…
Happy birthday, Deb A.! This is really late, but I am/have been at the cottage with my awesome extended family, so I win anyhow. Ha ha ha!
So… I still haven’t gone back to watching House, and after hearing about the season finale, all I can say is, whew, glad I got out when I did. Here is what I’ve been reading and watching instead.
Yes, more micro reviews. Originally, I meant to have an election-related blog for this weekend, but I didn’t finish it in time. Whatever, you wouldn’t want me to attempt think-y blog entries if I didn’t feed my brain with all this stuff.
As some of you may know, I recently returned from a month-long research trip to Europe. What you may not know is that I decided to travel as light as possible. In practical terms, this means the unthinkable: no books*! For someone who used to travel with no fewer than…
Or, Micro-Reviews, non-fiction edition. Whenever I go home for the holidays, there are invariably three things waiting for me in my room: the mail that has gathered in the interim, all the Globe and Mail Saturday cryptic crosswords accumulated in my absence (carefully torn out and folded by my father),…
But first! I’m headed away for research for the next few weeks, so my blog posts may be sporadic. And some may be full of photos. End transmission. Although those of you who’ve read my other reviews (micro, macro, and in between) might wonder at it, I feel like I…
The “lies” part is that these are micro-reviews, because my ability to summarize has got sloppy: I may (gasp!) go into four sentences at times.