Unlike an actual Kindle, I can hold my phone sideways in bed and turn pages with my thumb. Unlike an actual book, it’s not heavy to carry around and, with the press of a button, the lights turn off.
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Posts Tagged ‘ Lit ’
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2 Sentence Review: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
More of a character exploration than a novel, David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green) takes us through the minds of a terrorist, a jazz-loving adolescent, a spirit, and an aged, female entrepreneur in his debut, Ghostwritten. Not as polished as his later novels, Mitchell’s Japanese influence still peeks through as he threads the...
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2 Sentence Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, the first two books of a trilogy (the third coming out on May 25th and available now for pre-order) and really much more of a character study than your ordinary crime novels and proof that crime novels can be literature in...
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2 Sentence Review: Blankets by Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson’s Blankets depicts the wonderful confusion of falling in love for the first time. Awkward and romantic, his writing and artwork both enchant.
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Book Review: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Recommended for people who like: Law and Order, The Daily Show, anything by Howard Zinn, reading footnotes, abovethelaw, Dahlia Lithwick or anything written by the Jurisprudence department of Slate.com. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin is an examination of the Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief...
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Being Illiterate is Underrated.
… I, Lonnie, purveyor of all things pop-ee and smutty, am calling for an unlearning of written language as means of communication. I want mass book burnings. I want the internet to consist of pictures and 2-d flash games. I want no one to appreciate this sentence: Though she lapped at my stinky balls...
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Re-introduction via DFW…Morbid, I know…
Sorry to see you go, dude. Thought we could play tennis sometime. I realized this weekend that I really haven’t developed an area of expertise (pretend or valid) for this site. And I think I want to. Ironically (in the contemporary usage) I think there would much less pressure on me to create good...
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Letters to Inspiring Writers: Ellen Degeneres, I Love Your Point
Dear Ellen Degeneres: Until last week, all of my Ellen knowledge was hearsay. My little sister is a huge fan of yours. She does a killer go!gurt sketch and a pretty good “let me find my cellphone as it rings” dance. Actually, I should say I’ve heard her impersonations are pretty good. I’ve never...
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And after many a summer dies the swan.
Today I received a disturbing email in my inbox. It was a technology tip from my employer’s IT office. I receive emails such as this occasionally, and though it shames me to say it now, I usually deleted them without even a simple glance. Now my shame has turned to guilt. The subject line of the email: Technology Tip...
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the rut of half read books & half written letters
some of you may know that my (self-imposed) goal for the year is to read 50 books. You can see what i’ve read here. In addition to those books, I have about 7 other books that are half complete. I used to have an OCD manager who told me that I needed to work...
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