What A Card: If a tree falls in the woods...

Sunday, December 30, 2007

If a tree falls in the woods...

Pppssst. I have a secret. I haven't told anyone about my blog. Well, I've linked it in here and there, but haven't drawn any attention to it. Haven't told any friends or family.

What's up with that?

It's kind of like a journal I leave sitting open on a table in a coffee shop while I go to wait in line for 20 minutes to get a bagel and coffee. Sure, probably no one will read it, but maybe.

Random thought: The King and I always have cheese fondue for New Year's Eve dinner. This year we're trying to recreate a fontina/roasted garlic/date fondue we had at The Melting Pot. Wish us luck.

Bonus random thought: I think I'm going to try to take a photo a day in 2008. I'm not arty, nor am I an especially proficient photographer. But on the plus side, the chances of me taking a photo of my own disembodied eye, or anyone else's for that matter, are fairly low. What's up with all the people who take photos of just an eye, maybe a sliver of nose or eyebrow, but not the whole face. Odd. Says the girl who is the definition of odd.

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What I've been reading

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson. You know how some authors are just a perfect fit for you? That's Bryson for me. I love his writing, and have a weird affection for etymology, so this was a match made in heaven. Loved it!
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. What an interesting snapshot of America in the early 60s. Some parts were really compelling, a good read.
John Dies at the End by David Wong. Weird. Not bad, but weird.
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh. I love her blog--at least half of this book is directly reprinted from the blog so I'd already read it. She touches on depression (like on her blog), which provides that strange funny/depressing dichotomy.
Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk. Collection of short autobiographical and non-fiction stuff. Great...enjoyed more than some of his novels!
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Really enjoyable book! Part dystopian, part techno thriller, with some lite cyberpunk tossed in along with heavy doses of geek culture and 80's memorabilia. Definitely worth a read!
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. I read Beautiful Boy, the memoir by Nic Sheff's father about his meth addiction last month. To say a drug addict makes a questionably believable narrator is something of an understatement, but this was still a really interesting story. Would like to read his followup memoir.
My Beloved Brotosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs by Brian Switek. Interesting science book by a paleontologist. Funny chapter on dinosaur reproduction theories. Overall interesting, though sometimes the author's stories make him sound entirely incapable of advance planning. In a fun way.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Enjoyed the first half of the book, but thought it was going to be a straightforward "woman in peril" kind of book. Loved when the second part started. Ended up really enjoying this one.
Vurt by Jeff Noon. This book was weird. Not bad, just out there. I'm not a huge fan of cyberpunk, which this is, but this was okay. Would certainly recommend to fans of the genre.