If there is one thing I leaned in while getting my Masters, it is to beware Grand Narratives of History.  Stories that purport to have the whole of History lined up in a neat linear fashion of cause and effects should always be treated with a little caution, or at the least compared with another [...]

WARNING – this is one big spoiler.  If you have not finished Steig Larrson’s Millennium Trillogy – which might be hard seeing how The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is not out until Tuesday – this is your last chance to STOP READING.  If, however, you somehow managed to get a copy (if you [...]

Steve,
Following our conversation - here is my pile of “to be read” books currently on my bed-side table.  It is ordered from Top-to-Bottom (meaning, most likely to be read next to most likely to gather dust for a while.)
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link – Collection of short stories that I have been eying for a while.  I hate [...]

I am pretty certain that Wiggy picked up Motherless Brooklyn solely because it had Brooklyn in the title.  But, whatever his reasoning, he did, he read it, and he loaned it to me.  And just like that, I was hooked.  Lethem’s brilliant twist on the detective genre told from the perspective of a Tourette syndrome [...]

I was having a conversation at work pondering my “Favorite Movie of 2009″ and I realized that I could not only remember what I had seen, but was fuzzy about my feelings about them.  To remedy this, I created a list of all of the movies I had seen this year and in doing so [...]

Used bookstores are my kryptonite.
Newly activated Free Library of Philadelphia card = best thing ever.