Things I wrote
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Lila is Marilynne Robinson's companion novel to Gilead.
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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.
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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.
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I passed the halfway mark of my daily drawing and wanted to do a bit of a look back at the second quarter.
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At its heart, it's a novel about marriage and how disappointment, failure, and change are handled over the years.
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Some thoughts on work and this moment in time, where I'm trying to figure out the next step.
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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.
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Moving on my mat is what's keeping me sane right now.
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It's official, I really love the writing of Lynda Barry.
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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.
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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.
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A book about drawing, the mind, writing, and thinking.
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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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I finished the Tom Tyler series by Maureen Jennings about a week ago (forgive me, I've been redesigning, so posting has been slow). It's much better than the second book, but the first book is the real star of this series.
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A few weeks ago as I was trying to fall asleep I got an idea for a redesign of this site. And I got excited about it. I promptly fell asleep and then woke up and was <em>still</em> excited.