New Year and Old Business (Reading List, Part IV)

Well, good morning, and welcome to 2018, I hope it’s a good one for you. Thank you to all of you who come by and spend a few minutes every week with me, and especially those of you who regularly have something to say. I always aim to give you something to come here for, […]

The Reading List, 2017 (Part III)

Amazing that we’re into October already, isn’t it? Here’s the list of books read and completed between July and now–have you read any of them? The Good Life (2006), Jay McInerney. Unintentional re-read. I did not like it nearly as much as I thought, and I can’t remember what I thought of it the first […]

The Reading List, 2017 (Part II)

Happy Independence Day (early) for my American readers! Happy Canada Day (late) for my Canadian readers! And happy [insert appropriate holiday here] for my [insert appropriate nationality, ethnicity, religion, etc. here] readers! Whew, I think I covered it. Last week, I wrote about the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) I’m in, and the promise to […]

Semi-coherent Thoughts on Reading and Time

For the better part of the last four days, I’ve been thinking about time, and books, and reading. Last Thursday over at Writer Unboxed, Ray Rhamey posted the first page New York Times bestseller The Handmaid’s Tale in his “Flog A Pro” column. If you’re not familiar with it, in “Flog A Pro,” Rhamey posts […]

The Reading List, 2017 (Part I)

Hey, ho, it’s the first post of April, and that means it’s time for the Quarterly Reading Report! I feel like I had a really slow reading period this year so far. That can be attributed to watching too much hockey, playing too much Grand Theft Auto, and actually doing some writing. The Bruins’ season […]

Reviewing the List

File this under “cleaning up things from last year.” It’s not necessarily the last in this category (still have to do that one about resolution that was kicking in my brain from last December or so, but that one’s going to have to wait a bit), but it’s the one I feel capable of tackling. […]

The Reading List (The Last)

Good morning, and Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you had a good–and safe–celebration, and I wish you the very best for 2017. I have a thematically-appropriate post on Resolution drafted, but it’s not ready enough this morning and I’m not prepared to craft it into perfection this morning; instead, I give […]

The Reading List (The Third)

Well, well, it’s another sheet torn off the old wall calendar, and not just any month, but September. That means another quarter of the year gone, and that means it’s time for the reading report! If you want to see what else I’ve read this year, here’s Part I and Part II. But before we […]

The Reading List (Part Deux)

I’ve been on a bit of a downer lately, what with posts on…well, never mind, no need to bring it all back up. If you’ve been reading along, you know what I mean, and if not, you can easily go back and look over the last couple of weeks of posts and see for yourself. […]

Monday Musing: No Real Theme

Starting is always the hardest part. Do I ease into the post with an introductory paragraph, or dive right in? It’s supposed to be fun. Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading Stacy McKitrick’s agonizings over the Pittsburgh Penguins’ playoff fortunes. She’s up! She’s down! She’s up! She’s down! (Today, she’s down) And as […]