Dreaming in Wanderlust

Irrelevant Movie Reviews - No. 1.

2008-07-04T09:53:37Z

The Golden Compass. 2.5 out of 5 irrelevant stars. Let's say you really enjoyed a book. And they made a movie out of that book. And you really, really, really, wanted to enjoy that movie and support it because the book and the movie were conside...

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Happy Independence Day!

2008-07-04T08:16:31Z

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature...

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Overheard.

2008-07-04T03:23:14Z

Woman on a cell phone across the street from my apartment, while walking her dog: It's like we moved to the Bronx and we live in the ghetto. It's ridiculous. Considering I live in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, Tennessee, I'm going to venture a guess th...

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27/50. The Septembers of Shiraz.

2008-07-02T04:14:25Z

Wow. This was an amazingly brilliant book. I read it in a day, and will be discussing it at my new book club that I've joined, but for now, a few thoughts. Dalia Sofer tells the story of an Iranian Jew in 1981, as the revolutionary guard has sei...

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The Reading List

2008-06-30T09:39:48Z

One of the dangers of working in a bookstore is that you buy too many books, and then before you even begin to read the ones you own, you buy more or check books out (we have a library system of sorts). As such, I have a decent sized stack of book...

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26/50. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.

2008-06-30T08:40:52Z

As it turns out, with one day left in June, I am one book ahead of schedule. Yes, it was Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by comedian Chelsea Handler that has placed me over the halfway mark, with one half of the year now gone. Self-deprec...

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25/50. Once Upon a Time in the North.

2008-06-30T08:26:21Z

I'm not going to lie. I read Once Upon a Time in the North partially because it was short. I wanted to make sure that as June ended I was halfway through my goal. This is the first time I've accomplished such a feet. But Philip Pullman's mini-bo...

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24/50. The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

2008-06-30T06:18:12Z

The Witch of Blackbird Pond is the second Newberry winner on my reading list that I seemed to have missed during my childhood. I loved it. I was particularly pleased with the ending. Elizabeth George Speare wrote a terrific story that gave a glim...

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America's "Christian" Traditions: A Rant

2008-06-27T14:26:58Z

This blog is a direct response to Timothy's post about the ACLU and the case against school-sanctioned prayer at the U.S. Naval Academy. Disclaimer No. 1: This is not directed at Timothy himself. Though he and I disagree more than we agree, he h...

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23/50. Curse of the Spellmans.

2008-06-27T09:12:57Z

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz was a "Buyer's Pick" at the bookstore where I work, which meant it was advertised in the store every hour on the hour for about a month. Because of this, a coworker read it, and then recommended it to me. "It's qu...

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