I knew I would regret saying something nice about the Twilight series. I spoke too soon.
You remember peer-editing clumsy short stories in 6th grade? Take a gander at the synopses below (Wikipedia) – great reading if you haven’t had your daily facepalm. I refuse to believe the plot of this series was dreamt up by [...]
books
late to the party
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009the holiday reading list, or an exercise in wishful thinking
Thursday, November 5th, 2009When slogging your way through an already dense reading list (one which sits, physically imposing, piled about a foot tall on your coffee table), what better to do than spontaneously treat yourself to a second-hand copy of the 3rd ed. of Biochemistry by Mathews, van Holde, & Ahern. When that arrives tomorrow, we’ll stack it [...]
a book I stand a chance of finishing…
Thursday, October 15th, 2009A few days ago, after months of curiosity, I finally bought “Good Calories, Bad Calories” and I’ve been reading it feverishly ever since. (It will be at least a week before I finish it – I’m a pathologically slow reader.)
It’s plenty controversial, although the tone of the book, I was pleased to discover, is fairly [...]
this is how it starts
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (who wrote what is probably my favorite book) made an appearance on the Colbert Report last night to promote his new book and thereby invalidate any plans I had to finish the books I’m currently reading.
*Sigh.* I can’t resist. I’m sure I will have bought the new one by this weekend.
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