Reviews, roundups, and general commentary on what I’m currently reading, watching, or listening to.
This semester I began my advanced-level ESL Oral Communication class with Susan Cain’s famed TED talk, and after the subject of introversion vs. extroversion became like a running theme in the class, I decided to pick up the book-length version, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. So glad I did. … Read more
I’ve been meaning to read this novel and didn’t get to it until just recently — and now I can see why it’s one of his most well-known works. (And why it’s a much-anticipated movie coming out later this year.) I’m not a big sci-fi fan — I’m more into swords and castles than ray … Read more
Every now and then — and nowadays too rarely for my liking — I come across a book that sucks me in from the moment I pick it up in the bookstore. As soon as I buy it, I can’t wait to read it; and as soon as I start reading it, I can’t put … Read more
This weekend I FINALLY finished reading Heretics by G. K. Chesterton — and I say FINALLY not at all because it was some long book that was a drag to get through, but because it was actually a short book (133 pages) packed with gems. Although it was written over a century ago, it’s as relevant for us “postmoderns” as … Read more
This afternoon, more than two months after buying the thing, I FINALLY finished reading Epic: Legends of Fantasy, the epic fantasy anthology edited by John Joseph Adams. I’m sure I would have finished reading it earlier but for the great tsunami of grad school work that washed over my life this semester. Yet even with … Read more