Nerd and a half

Celebrating the nerd life, being a huge dork, and geekery.

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Oct 212 min read

Spooky Season '24

I'm usually much more into spooky season than I am this year, and I think that it's so hot!

Oct 13, 20232 min read

Finally read a challenge book: The Mill on the Floss

I don't know if any two characters I've come across in the hundreds of books that I've read in my life have made me half as tired as Tom Tul

May 9, 20232 min read

Victorian children being cured by being allowed to run out of doors

I know that I've read this in more than these books, but I'm going to write about Heidi by Johanna Spyri and The Secret Garden by Frances...

Apr 30, 20233 min read

What books do you like to read in Spring?

Some books are tied to the time of the year or the time in my life when I read them. In winter, I often want to read something...

Feb 18, 20234 min read

Our Missing Books

Bradbury, Ray- Fahrenheit 451 (read by Tim Robbins) Ng, Celeste- Our Missing Hearts House, Silas- Lark Ascending Once again, I'm pulling...

Oct 30, 20224 min read

Victorian Bears and Monsters

OK, these two books don't really have much to do with each other, except: Victorian, British setting really looooong sinister, selfish...

Dec 12, 20213 min read

Alphabet Reading Challenge: s, t, u, w

Strong, Anthony M- The Haunting of Willow House Tarkington, Booth- The Magnificent Ambersons Unsworth, Emma Jane- Grown Ups Walker,...

Nov 21, 20214 min read

Children's favorites: Emily and Anne

When someone gave me the awesome Christmas present of the Emily of New Moon trilogy, I didn't like it! I didn't like old-fashioned books....

Apr 30, 20215 min read

Challenge check-in: halfway(ish) through April

Reading Paradise Lost, Shakespeare essays, The Night Swim, Wives and Daughters, and starting on Plain Bad Heroines.

Apr 4, 20216 min read

March 2021: challenge check-in and a galley

Titles from my alphabet reading challenge and my Goodreads reading challenge. Also one YA book and one galley.

Feb 20, 20214 min read

Challenge check-in: mid-Feb 21

Goodreads list: Haig, Matthew- The Midnight Library Nonfiction: Didion, Joan- Let Me Tell You What I Mean Stretch: Dickens, Charles-...

Dec 27, 20204 min read

2021 reading goals: challenge level

When I was in my last year of college, I decided that I was reading too many old books (I really liked Victorian novels), so I made...