Vox

Musings, rants, rambling, general nonsense

WOWIO

I haven’t been checking Cox & Forkum lately, since they have basically shut down the blog. Fortunately, I still have them in my RSS reader. I didn’t find this right away – but I am glad I didn’t miss it completely. They are giving away their books for FREE! Bonus, once you sign up for […]

R.I.P. – Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr passed away Wednesday at the age of 84. Vonnegut is one of the first authors I have a clear recollection of reading. That point where you seek out additional works by one writer, rather than just continuing in a genre. I found him through my brother, usually referenced here as TCHOTP (The […]

Shopgirl

I recently saw the film Shopgirl and have been intending to review it over at my Word Of Mouth Blog. I figured, though, that I would review the book at the same time. Realizing how long it has been since I read it (at least 5 years) I decided to read it again to give […]

Is This Ironic?

Oprah’s last book club pick, touted as a wholly factual autobiography, was A Million Little Pieces. She apparently doesn’t have a problem with the fact that it was in fact a big work of fiction (and had it been presented as such, I would have no problem, either). Now she has picked Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical […]

Rainbows

I stopped by Barnes & Noble today to pick up a book. Yeah, that’ll happen. So I ended up with several, one of which is Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search For Beauty in Physics and in Life. I am looking forward to reading this one – and it is all my brother’s fault. He turned me […]

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