Dec 22, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian — One thing that’s really sweet about these books is that they’re unexpectedly slice-of-lifey. The lives happen to be very unusual by the standards of the modern American reader, but we get looks into the...
Oct 13, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Of course I’m no stranger to long-delayed AEL’s, even if the reason is usually laziness or whatever rather than all-consuming obsession with something else XD So this’ll be the usual thing: quick reports trying to catch up, at first based on what...
Aug 4, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
29 days ’til I turn 38! Now for some bookities. Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum — When I was a kid reading these books, I abandoned the series after this installment. It just made me so angry that Baum seemed to be out of ideas and repeating himself. This...
Jul 21, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Still Water Saints by Alex Espinoza — This book was very engaging. I loved the format — all these people only distantly connected each having their own stories while Perla’s narrative ran throughout — and thought each story was well constructed...
Jul 7, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People — We’ve discussed already how I am about video games, and here’s the opposite end of the spectrum. This series is damn near perfect. I replay it when I get to missing my friends from Free Country USA...
Jun 23, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Hero U: Rogue to Redemption — OK, let’s talk about me and my ADHD and video games for a second. Games that have both the type of gameplay and the type of story/setup that can hold my attention sufficiently that I’m actually willing to play them...
Jun 9, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez — I enjoyed this book despite how painful it was. Julia goes through remarkable and very believable character growth. At first she’s an insufferable teenager (though in a very understandable way that...
May 26, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
ATLoK Turf War volume 2 — I love to see Zhu Li running for president. Apart from the fact that Raiko is a dipshit, it’s great to see a woman stepping up in a political way. She’s not a warrior or a spiritual leader; she’s a different kind of...
May 12, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters — Tutankhamen’s tomb is very interesting, and I like thinking and reading about it. And it was obvious the author had to bring the series up to that point in Egyptological history. But by this book, I always get...
Apr 28, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Black Panther — Still pretty upset with myself for not taking notes. I believed I might manage to see this movie again before I got around to writing up my thoughts on it, and then I’d be able to give a more coherent impression of my experience, but guess...
Apr 14, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Aight, here’s the second instance of doing this on a schedule. I feel it working already!!! I’m not anywhere close to caught up yet, and again I have a bunch of items from before with no notes that I just have to remember my experience with, but I still...
Mar 31, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
OK, maybe if I do these every other Saturday, opposite my TWIP’s, it’ll work better? I’ll try it. Kindred by Octavia Butler — I don’t know exactly what to say about this book. It was a fascinating read and I loved it, but it’s been...
Feb 4, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian — After enjoying the previous book so much, I definitely loved this direct continuation of the story. I was wondering for a while how this author could possibly have written twenty freaking books in this series, but it...
Jan 8, 2018 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens — I was excited for this book, not only because I hadn’t read it in probably 25 years but also because it would, I thought, be interesting to read a long Dickens soon before Christmas (when, as you may recall, we always...
Nov 27, 2017 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries |
Geez, what happened to this. Tumblr addiction happened to this. OK, the shortest of short mentions (as pre-existing notes allow) for each item until I get caught the fuck up here. Jam by Yahtzee Croshaw — I love this book. It’s a great disaster survival...
