Tag Archives: reading

Brain Drool

I reread books because I have a poor memory for the details but a great one for the experience. When I reread I’m never surprised or left wondering, but I am returned to the emotional territory of surprise and wonder.
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Much Like an MMO

I know people who develop a mental image of folks they've only met over the phone: blonde, slightly overweight, and jovial. I don't do that, to me the voice is the person.
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Walking Down the Aisle

They call this section Fiction. Seems like they could easily split this large section into Fiction You Read in School and Fiction You Read at the Beach. They don't.
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Douglas in Wonderland

It raises an discomforting shiver up from my defenseless underarms like the threat of a tickle that quickly attacks my core. I shake it off of course--it's just a movie--but the light ting of fear lingers.
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The King’s Draggin’

I conciously skipped writing last night.  Let’s call it laziness.  I did replace it with reading a new book and going to bed early.  I did not, as previously threatened, watch copious amounts of bad TV. The book I picked up in Houston last week reads well enough, but isn’t in my sweet spot.  I like [...]
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I Have Maybe 82 Books Left to Read Before I Die

There are books.  There are lists.  And there are the Internets. These three things combine occasionally to brush past me like a work friend on her way to get coffee or lunch.  We pause to chat then get back to whatever we were up to before crossing paths. Today she passed me again.  A thought I had [...]
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