My first book & movie review in one post. I finished reading Watchmen on Thursday and saw the movie on Friday. Both were excellent for different reasons. The book is actually a collection of a twelve-comic series released by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. Alan Moore was the author, Dave Gibbons was the artist [...]
Last fall I read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ( hereafter “Running“) by Haruki Murakami. It’s a small book with nicely spaced lines of text. A quick read. As you may well imagine, even before you open the yellow and red cover, Running is neither a running or writing book. It [...]
The following quote from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami has hung with me for a few days now: Reiko smiled too, cigarette in mouth. “You are a good person, though. I can tell that much from looking at you. I can tell these things after seven years of watching people come and go here: there [...]
By the encouragement of my girlfriend, which came in the form of, “if you’re not going to read them, I’ll read them to you,” I started listening to the first Harry Potter book. Soon, the listening-reading was consuming and conversation in the car took a backseat (pun intended) to what the next page held. Before [...]
Instructional self-help books I could write by drawing on my childhood experiences: How to want to be a construction worker. Why you shouldn’t wear shorts when it’s 52 degrees out. How to take an eight-second shower in eight seconds.
I’ve been reading Harry Potter lately. I’m not going to bother explaining it because if you haven’t heard of it you clearly don’t care. Harry attends a school called Hogwarts, which is exclusively for wizards. To jump subjects for a bit, we are studying the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment in Constitutional Law. [...]