This is in response to my friend Steve’s post over at his blog, to which he has kindly allowed me to reply in the interests of opening friendly discussion (and also in the interests of giving both of us fodder for future blog entries. Win-win!). I actually meant to write…
But first and most importantly: happy Father’s Day, Dad! You’re the best! So I’m not exactly a poetry buff. Certainly I’m not a poet; although I have one Hilroy containing a couple angsty verses dating back to my thirteenth or fourteenth year, even that is mostly semi-humourous garbage. I can’t…
Without question, the most complicated character in my personal fictional jerkwads hall-of-fame is Peter Pan.
If I went to Hogwarts, I’d want to be Sorted into Slytherin. But not because I like power or ambition, because I see myself as cunning or ruthless, or even because I like the idea of being a “bad girl.”
(Yes, it’s Monday, I know. Sorry. Dissertation stuff not over yet! Allow me to appease you by offering: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Go read it.) Over the past year, I’ve found myself unintentionally becoming a YA novel hipster. As my friends and family get hooked on Suzanne Collins’s…
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…
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!
I never thought I’d say this, but I actually enjoyed the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows better than the second. I didn’t think I’d say that because pretty much nothing happens during the former, and pretty much everything happens during the latter. Even more surprising, although…
Alternate title: a pretend essay on Sam Harris’s The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Free Press, 2010) . “Pretend” because if a student handed in something like this to me and called it an “essay,” I would probably send it back, but this is a blog, so…