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Category: Review
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Efficiency and the Device
I have cellphone service again. I went two whole days without it… and I was musing on how when I was a kid, we didn’t even have a telephone in the house. Or electricity, but that’s beside the point. Had there been an emergency, at a few years in my life, going for help…
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Book Review: Joanna Godden
I am quite out of countenance with my coffeepot. Yesterday, as I am batching it (wouldn’t that be a feminine in my case? But the word eludes me) I used the french press to make a modest amount of coffee and it was pleasantly mellow, no bitter notes at all. Today, as I anticipate…
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Movie Review: Knives Out
The Jr. Mad Scientist sent me a message yesterday. “I’m thinking about renting Knives Out, would you want to watch it with me?” I was delighted with the idea. We’re all in the same house, but she and I and the Little Man have mostly been giving one another space. Me, because sick, her…
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Book Review: Rimworld Series
One thing about being very reluctantly quarantined and sick: I can read. And, since I haven’t been up to writing yet (I have hopes. Two weeks of enforced confinement is a lot of time for writing) I have been reading. As I was reading yesterday, and tripping over what I was reading, I realized…
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Review: All Things Huge and Hideous
G. Scott Huggins (and I don’t know what the G stands for, but I want to think it’s for Great. Great Scott! also, because he writes great stuff) has a new book out, All Things Huge and Hideous. If that sounds like it’s a riff on the Herriot titles I grew up loving and…
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Movie Review: Midway
Over the weekend my son dragged me to see a movie. I say this like it was hard for me to do, which isn’t actually true in this case. When he wanted to go see JoJo Rabbit I was deeply dubious (and I should write that review up soon, I suppose). Midway? I was…
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A Book Study: The Wonderful Garden
I have not been reading much recently. No time, no mental energy, and what little reading I could wedge into my schedule needed to be for research purposes. So when my friend Kathryn posted, as she does daily, a little quote from a book, it caught my eye and I decided that I was going…
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Review: Captain Marvel
I took the kids to see a movie last night. Normally I take them, drop them off, and come back later to get them. But this time they really wanted me to go, too. It’s a Marvel movie, which they know I appreciate, and as I told the Junior Mad Scientist later, the time approaches…
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Review: Danner Vicious
I promised this review a long time ago. My only excuse is that the delay has made it an even better review… (Teal Deer at the end of the post.) This isn’t about books. It’s about boots. Specifically, the Danner Vicious I bought in March for work purposes. Before making this investment – I paid more for…
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Review: Pocketful of Stars
The absolutely fun thing about Pocketful of Stars is that it’s like a matrouyshka doll. It’s got layers. You open up one, and there’s another fun face looking at you, and you open that one to see yet another… you know how this goes. I found myself chortling at some of the humor in this…
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Tea and a Game Review
The Ginja Ninja and I have been talking about doing this for months. We’ve drunk a lot of tea, but haven’t had the time for a game until today, when she came to me and said ‘I’m making tea and I cleaned off the table. You pick the game.” Given that we’ve only got 4…
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Review: Hit or Miss
One of the fun ways to discover new reads is to meet authors in unlikely places. I’ve reviewed books here that I found through meeting people online and having good conversations that got me curious about their books. I’ve met people at cons, liked them, and bought their books on the strength of that. I…