Boring Books

    Your weekly dose of Calvin & Hobbes.

Bestsellers

In The Background

    Yep.  That's me.

Bookshelf Insight

Book Greetings

Worst Ending

    Robin Cook's Chromsome 6.  Worst ending to an otherwise good novel ever.

Hoarding

    I admit it.  I hoard books.  But only ones I haven't read yet.

Book Hoarding

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The Right Number of Books

    Yeah, right.  It is to laugh.

Book Lovers - A Checklist

    I don't do #8 very much (re-reading a book), but the rest of these all apply to me.

Mind. Blown.

    Very clever.  And FWIW, both the book and the movie are awesome.

Go the F*k to Sleep

    It's a real book, available at Amazon. 32 pages, $14.36 Hardcover; $5.99 Kindle. There's even an audiobook version of it, and an audio-CD one as well

Neighborhood Book Exchange

    We've started bicycling around the neighborhood for the exercise.  Today I came across one of these "Little Free Library" boxes along a nearby street.  These are those "take one, leave one" street-side book exchange sitesm, such as the one pictured above.  I'm a bookaholic so I had to stop and check out the (very limited) selection. 

    Most of the books were for juveniles, and there was one YA Harry Potter book.  But fortuitously, there was also a copy of  Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", which I've been meaning to read sometime this year.

    So I pedaled home, grabbed Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" and went back and made the exchange.  I figure I traded down, but that's okay.

Books vs. TV

    This is why I read books instead of watching TV.

Indie Authors

    Well, technically, I suppose the picture can apply to published authors as well.  But indie authors are easier to talk to, and frankly. if you go out and angrily buy a second book by them, they're happy whether you agree or disagree with them.

Getting Rid of Books

    Now just hold on there a minute.  I've never read The Great Gatsby.  I think I'll move it back into the "Books Never To Sell" pile.

    But the two remaining books can go.

New Books

    Sigh.  This is me.

My first book!

    Hey everybody, I've finished writing my first book!!  In fact, I've even completed the sequel.  I'm very proud of the book covers.  I designed them myself!

Literary Paranoia

    I'm just glad I didn't ask for books about "psychopaths who read" books.

Buying Books

    Truer words were never spoken.