November in a nutshell: Sumayah went out on the same week as the U.S. election, this month sucked ass and I have not been anywhere near my best. I was…
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen NOTE: Shout-out to Ms. Kube, who used Mr. Collins’s proposal in a lesson contrasting two dramatically different literary proposals. I don’t remember much of tenth…
The Cartographers Peng Shepherd You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be serious spoilers. We are all very familiar with the concept of a book that’s so…
First things first: civic duty over all. This is the first election I’ve voted early. Every other time I’ve left it till Election Day, but this year carries far more…
I DON’T CARE IF IT’S ONLY MID-OCTOBER MY SHOP IS SO READY FOR HALLOWEEN because if there’s one thing I’ve been doing with all my free time it’s sleeping and…
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be spoilers. Distance and adulthood did not help. I first read this book in high school,…
Happy October. It took me several hours and a nap (which, to be honest, ate up most of those hours) to figure out how to get my monitor to get…
And just like that, I’m out of a job. After six years with this company and nineteen years of scrambling over and over again for any kind of job at…
Into the Wild Erin Hunter NOTE: While the series is officially called “Warriors,” it was introduced to me as “Warrior Cats,” and that is what I call it. You’re off…
We interrupt this program to memorialize a moment of shocking import. After at least 27 years and an unquantifiable loss of (video game) life, I have finally killed Bowser and…