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  • Beware this boy

    I really enjoyed the first book; the pacing and story were well done. But this second one is a bit of a mess.

  • Yoga app

    I'm an avid yoga person. I really love it.

  • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

    Olivia Laing is a fascinating writer, mixing her own experience with that of artists and her reflections on the city to create a book that is hard to quantify and describe.

  • Alone time

    Alone time, focused time, not multitasking, it was sooooooo good and it reminded me that I need to do it more.

  • Postal

    Another find from the library, <em>Postal</em> is a strange story, involving a small town where a sheriff and mayor rule the town completely and the mayor's son, who has Asperger's Syndrome, starts to wonder about some of the things happening.

  • Daytripper

    I know last year when I read <em>Nimona</em> I said it was in the running for my favorite book of 2016 and honestly, it was the best book I read. <em>Daytripper</em> is in the running for my favorite comic of all time.

  • Season of Darkness

    When a Land Army girl is murdered, he's sent headlong into learning about many of the things that are simmering under the surface of the small village.

  • Oryx and Crake

    And right now I find a bit of comfort in Atwood's writing.

  • Travels with Charley

    I'm so glad I read this book.

  • Public transit

    I've seen talk about how instead of promoting car services such as Uber or Lyft, we should be investing in public transit instead. And while I'm a huge fan of public transit and use it for probably 90% of my transit around Portland, I also realize that it doesn't service every area well.

  • Sunday night

    It's the Sunday night of a long weekend, which is my favorite of all Sunday nights.

  • Things giving me comfort today

    I've been quiet in many of the online spaces I occupy lately. I've been retreating into things that I find comfort in during all the tumult.

  • More Home Cooking

    I often stumble on authors who write about food, read the book, love it, and then find out that the person is rather well known. This happened with M.F.K. Fisher last year and now it's happened again with Laurie Colwin.

  • The Real World of Technology

    <em>The Real World of Technology</em> by Ursula Franklin is an amazing book. And it's made all the more amazing because the first two thirds of the book are lectures that were given in 1989 and the last third was written in 1999.

  • Silas Marner

    I've long been meaning to read something by George Eliot, and a few weeks back the author interviewed in By the Book mentioned <em>Silas Marner</em> and I knew it was the book I should read to see if I would like George Eliot's writing or not.