Archive for May, 2005
Monday, May 30th, 2005
Golem’s Eye, Whales on Stilts, Waifs & Strays
Nancy Pearl really built up my expectations for Whales on Stilts. It was cute, but it didn’t meet my expectations. The characters were supposed to have that 1950s-style two-dimensionality, or maybe even one-dimensionality, but they weren’t quite clever enough to sustain it for a whole book. I think Whales on Stilts would have made a […]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Golem’s Eye, Whales on Stilts, Waifs & Strays
Nancy Pearl really built up my expectations for Whales on Stilts. It was cute, but it didn’t meet my expectations. The characters were supposed to have that 1950s-style two-dimensionality, or maybe even one-dimensionality, but they weren’t quite clever enough to sustain it for a whole book. I think Whales on Stilts would have made a […]
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
The Human Stain
This is a wonderful book, facinating, uncomfortable, and full of subtle humor.
The Human Stain is set around the fictional "Athena College" in western Masschusetts — a pretty thinly veiled Smith College. The main character was a Classics professor and a Dean for 40 years, until a comment he makes about 2 students who haven’t […]
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family
This was a fantastic book, and a great way of setting the context of living in Atlanta. In fact, in January, I spent a lot of time looking for a good recent history of Atlanta, and everything I found then stopped at roughly the election of President Carter. Shame on the bookstores where I was […]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Idea
I had an idea this evening, that I’m extremely excited about.
I think I should write a book, or probably, a series of books, about computer safety for kids.
There are some good kids internet safety books written for parents. But parents and teachers need to teach kids about how to be safe online.
I […]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Gregor the Overlander
I really liked this book. It was imaginative, icky, heartwarming, funny, and very difficult to review without giving too much away. There are battles and friendships with underground humans, rats, spiders, and cockroaches, which Gregor must handle while protecting his two year old sister and looking for his long-lost father.
Gregor the Overlander is a […]
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Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Who Let the Dogs in?
I remember the first time I read a book of Molly Ivins essays.
It was Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?, and I bought it in hardcover, even though I was a broke graduate student.
The first thing that made me fall in love was the introduction. She talked about reading this essay by a […]
