Nerd and a half

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

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

May 17, 20243 min read

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.

Jul 30, 20233 min read

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

Feb 18, 20234 min read

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...

Sep 19, 20213 min read

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

Jan 2, 20212 min read

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...

Dec 12, 20203 min read