Nerd and a half

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

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Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby Somewhere in the Dark, R. J. Jacobs The 2084 Report, James Laurence Powell To Sleep in a Sea of Stars,...

Oct 20, 20203 min read

some favorite scary books that I highly recommend.

Oct 12, 20204 min read

The scary reading I have lined up for this year. I love Halloween! The Only Good Indians, Uncle Silas, The Invited, and more...

Oct 6, 20202 min read

Use WorldCat to search multiple library catalogs at once!

Sep 27, 20202 min read

I just revisited one of my all-time favorites: Jane Austen's Persuasion. I had new questions, thoughts that had never occurred to me...

Sep 16, 20203 min read

The Secret History is one of my favorite books. I missed it when it was new- I was in college and not keeping up with new books.

Aug 30, 20203 min read

Whether I shall turn out to be the heroine of my own reading life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must...

Aug 15, 20201 min read