Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The library had a book sale and I went and spent five bucks and got lots of books. So today I’m also thankful for book sales and the libraries that put them on.
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
It’s always a frightening thing to reread a book you haven’t read for a while. We change so much sometimes in just a few years that a book that was once the beginning and end of catharsis for our emotional state is just whiny and dumb. The character who’d once stood on the pedestal of [...]
Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes on Sep 17th, 2009 7 Comments »
Yesterday being our weekly library day I found myself at the library (weird, I know). In the midst of trying to find something for Samuel that took far too long to find and then ended up being not what he’d wanted I stumbled on a book called Dr. Suess Goes to War. It is a [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Reviews on Aug 5th, 2009 2 Comments »
My brother Jonathan loves me. I know he loves me because he convinced me to go see the 6th Harry Potter movie with him. I had seen movies 1-3 and then sworn off all Harry Potter movies because I just didn’t like the third one so much. But Jonathan said he’d buy my ticket to [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Reviews on Jul 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
Up until very recently I would have told you that my geekness had reached its zenith. My geek cred had risen to a point and then begun to fall as I surrounded myself with people far geekier than I. I used to consider myself a top-notch geek, but then I met some others and discovered [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Our playtesting group was recently testing a roleplaying game called Agora. You each play a faction who made it to the planet Agora during a big war. As soon as you get there the orders come through that there’s been a truce of sorts so just stay where you are and try to build a [...]
Posted in All About Words, Books, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Mar 30th, 2009 4 Comments »
The way I see it there are roughly three styles of revealing information in a book. There’s when the reader knows less than the viewpoint character and will periodically need to be explained to. There’s when the reader knows as much as the viewpoint character and they figure things out together. And then there’s what [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Jan 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
As I look back on 2008 it seems like a year full of self-discovery. Though, as I look back on 2007 I could say the same thing. Rather than fight the trend I decided to go with it partly because I’m a person and figuring out how people work is fascinating and partly because the [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Reviews on Oct 13th, 2008 4 Comments »
When Josh and Adiel came to see us in July they brought presents for the kids which mostly consisted of books because, honestly, what else is there? One of the books is You Can Do Anything, Daddy! by Michael Rex. I usually think that most children’s book are simplistic and insulting to children’s intelligence, but [...]
Posted in Books, For Amusement Purposes Only, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Sep 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday I spent a large chunk of my day reorganizing my books. This somewhat more useful than it sounds, as it involved taking books that used to be in boxes downstairs and stacking them behind other books on top of my bookshelf, more efficiently arranging books, and getting rid of almost a box full [...]