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“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world.”
– Salman Rushdie
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We Are the Shadow
There are times that the universe seems too big, and human beings so impossibly removed from it… I spend most of my time in front of a computer screen. That little glowing rectangle holds my job, my far-flung friends, and … Continue reading
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‘The Gallery of Vanished Husbands’: The Kind Of Book I Really Should Read More Of
It’s been a long time since I read a piece of literary fiction that was just a solid book. Nothing innovative or amazing, but still just a well-written good story. And in reading I realized that I should probably read … Continue reading
“Be not angry t…
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” –Thomas à Kempis
Little Failures
There certain things that I do that I know make me feel better the rest of the time. Writing is one of them – when I have a fiction project going and it’s going well, everything in my life just … Continue reading
‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’: Delightfully Odd
Miss Peregrine’s Home of Peculiar Children is one of the oddest books I’ve read in a long while, but it works brilliantly. The story, by Ransom Riggs, is a quick read, but an ingenius one. It’s also one of the … Continue reading
Love Letter To Veronica Mars
Dear Veronica Mars, First of all let me apologize for not re-watching you in a few years. After seeing the Veronica Mars Movie and embarking on a marathon viewing of the TV series that preceded it, I see what a … Continue reading
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“Speed was a ca…
“Speed was a causeway between life and death, and you hoped you came out on the side of life.” – Rachel Kushner, The Flame Throwers
The Radical Suggestion We Believe One Another
I was in New York this weekend to see my sister, and in between the museum visits and going out to dinner and watching Frozen together (the best sister movie we’ve found yet), we had a long conversation about why … Continue reading
“It does not do…
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – JK Rowling Because I’ve decided to start sharing quotes on occasion. And Harry Potter is never a bad place to start anything.
A Method In It. (I think) 