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  • The Peripheral

    31 July 2017

    I highly recommend reading this, it's a fast moving story that you'll find hard to put down. And then we can talk about The Jackpot over a drink.

  • The Incal

    28 July 2017

    <em>The Incal</em> is an insane, wonderful adventure that ends exactly as a comic of its nature should.

  • Lila

    21 July 2017

    Lila is Marilynne Robinson's companion novel to Gilead.

  • Upstream

    17 July 2017

    Oliver's ability to talk about a dog, a snapping turtle, or an injured gull and help me see larger themes of the world in it never fails to startle me and delight me.

  • Against the grain

    10 July 2017

    As I've been looking for work, which means looking at a lot of job postings, I've been discovering that what I love about the web is not so much what a lot of other people love.

  • Daily Drawing 2017: Halfway!

    06 July 2017

    I passed the halfway mark of my daily drawing and wanted to do a bit of a look back at the second quarter.

  • Angle of Repose

    06 July 2017

    At its heart, it's a novel about marriage and how disappointment, failure, and change are handled over the years.

  • Quiet risks

    23 June 2017

    Some thoughts on work and this moment in time, where I'm trying to figure out the next step.

  • Little Dorrit

    21 June 2017

    The class situations that are such a large part of the Dickens world are also interesting, especially since I think we do much the same thing in the US right now, just in much more subtle ways.

  • On the mat

    11 June 2017

    Moving on my mat is what's keeping me sane right now.

  • What It Is

    01 June 2017

    It's official, I really love the writing of Lynda Barry.

  • Thoughts on making

    15 May 2017

    Part of the goal is to wake me up to the world around me, get me noticing what's around me and happening, so that I can then use that to think about writing and what I want to write about.

  • Maddaddam

    14 May 2017

    While contemplating those questions are worthwhile, the story itself didn't grab me as much. But I do like things to be a bit more tidy in novels and this book definitely wraps up the story in a way where I didn't feel I was left hanging.

  • Syllabus

    14 May 2017

    A book about drawing, the mind, writing, and thinking.

  • The Year of the Flood

    19 April 2017

    I absolutely loved this mixing of things, the way in which we learned the philosophy of the Gardeners and how that time served both of the main characters after everything changes. It's a great story.

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