From the monthly archives:
Hopefully links are better than chocolate, since my office is swimming in Starbursts and chocolate eggs, and I cannot resist. Alison, Jen and I have been battling them all day, and all I can think about is the fact that I want more. One deliciously melt-in-your-mouth chocolate egg is never enough (although 6 might be [...]
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Yep. You’ve probably heard of One City, One Story, a project started by Seattle libraries in 1998 (Pasadena’s 2010 selection is Gardens of Water). If you haven’t, brief synopsis: Everyone in a city reads the same book over the course of a year, and therefore has a common thing to talk about with everyone else [...]
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No real post today, but I did update The Stack, since it is fairly unhelpful to have Patrick’s stack up still. For posterity, I’ll keep his up for a few months, but you can now spot MY stack right on top. It is very shiny, complete with all four books I’m currently reading (I never [...]
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I am looking forward to both my events this Saturday: Cressida Cowell’s How To Train Your Dragon at 11:30, and Danielle Trussoni’s Angelology at 4. How to Train Your Dragon sounds like it would have been right up my alley about 10 years ago, and Angelology is selling quite well and getting good reviews. However, [...]
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By John Vorhaus When I was a kid, I wanted to be big in the world. I didn’t know what that meant exactly, but it conjured up pictures in my mind of me wearing sunglasses, looking quite cool and feeling like a made guy, whatever the heck that was. As I grew older, as one [...]
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Sorry this is a day late… I blame a delicious indian/vegetarian food induced coma. Extra thanks to Paru’s for accommodating such a large crowd (mainly by cramming us into a booth probably meant for about 6, not 10). No matter the limited space, though; I think it ended up making for better discussion, and provided [...]
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Since Vroman’s Bookstore won the “Say No to Factory Farming” challenge in honor of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals, several of us from Vroman’s get to have dinner with the author! Patrick, who some of you may remember as the webmaster from the distant, distant past (about two weeks ago) will be there, [...]
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I know I’m supposedly reading the Wheel of Time (and I am, I promise!) but a year straight of epic fantasy is sometimes just a little too epic for me. So I’ve been taking breaks, mainly to re-read other things that I know are specifically not epic fantasy. However, I picked up The Boy Who [...]
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Well, Kathleen Norris (bestselling author of Amazing Grace, Cloister Walk, and the new Acedia & Me) thinks so. She said that this is possibly the best bookstore in the nation. Her words, not mine (although I, of course, am in total agreement!). She had some very interesting things to say about acedia tonight, (acedia is [...]
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