Nerd and a half

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

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May 173 min read

A DNF cemetary and three titles finished this year

I've written before about getting more persnickety about my reading and about clawing my way out of a post-covid reading slump. While...

Jul 30, 20233 min read

Backlist Books: 2020

Why I like visiting the backlist and two titles I read this year that came out three years ago, The City We Became and My Dark Vanessa.

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...

Sep 19, 20213 min read

Just because reading

Because, ooh, that sounds good right now is reason enough to go off my reading challenges. I'm really beginning to wish that hadn't set...

Jan 2, 20212 min read

General fiction: Older, The Glass Hotel, Perestroika in Paris

Older, Patricia Redmond The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel Perestroika in Paris, Jane Smiley Older: This was cute. It's a sequel to...

Dec 11, 20203 min read

General Fiction: The Margot Affair, If We Were Villains

I loved If We Were Villains, and I liked The Margot Affair quite alot. I started and stopped two other books in this category; it's a...