The Book: Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival, by Yossi Ghinsberg
The Story: This is a wild one. This guy, Yossi, is traveling in South America and meets up with a couple other guys who are doing the same thing. They form a quick friendship. They meet a guy named Karl who tells them that [...]
We’re moving to a new apartment in a couple of weeks. We have some furniture that is too ugly or too annoying to bother moving so we’re starting fresh in some areas. One of those is my bookshelf situation. Suffice to say that it is sad and annoying.
I was Googling today for some inspiration of [...]
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
I know that I’ve told you guys before that I learned to read pretty young and that the town I’m from had the crappiest library of all time. I ran out of books to read there all of the time and even as a kid would get so [...]
I’ve tried to be faithful in letting you know how I feel about using our iPad as an e-reader. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t used it for much else. I know that Shaun has, but I have a sneaking feeling that he mostly uses it to play games that are totally useless. In short, [...]
The Book: Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The Story: Just when you thought I couldn’t get any nerdier, look at me… reading comic books. Ha.
I know that it would probably make some seriously-in-love-with-Watchmen people cringe, but what I kept comparing Watchmen to was the movie The Incredibles. Superheroes are the bomb dot com and [...]
Read some pretty interesting news yesterday. I guess that during his lifetime, Mark Twain wrote a giant mass of an autobiography… something like 5,000 pages. He instructed that they be sealed in a box for 100 years following his death and then released to the public. It’s crazy to me that they’ve been sitting there [...]
The Book: Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Story: This is a story about a 20-something Jewish-American author, who just so happens to share a name with the author. He heads over to the Ukraine and is on a hunt for a small village that is no longer on the map. This is where [...]
And my personal favorite…..
Sawyer, shirt unbuttoned, reading Ayn Rand…. what could be better?
The Book: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, by Kelly O’Connor McNees
The Story: Most fans of Little Women know at least a little bit of Louisa May Alcott’s history. Her dad was part of a pretty influential group in Concord, but seemed a little nutty about transcendentalism. She had three sisters, who she kind [...]