Prestige Format: Music, Books, Movies
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C90 Christmas: Eve & Morn
I put together a Christmas mixtape for you. It’s two sides of a 90 minute cassette. (The cassette ended up being a little longer than 90 minutes, actually. Lucky me.) One side is for Christmas evening and the other is for Christmas morning, but you can really play them any time you’d like. There’s a…
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DecENDER: Chapters 6-8 Roundup (Week Two)
Originally posted here. These last three chapters have been all about Battle School and, specifically, the Battleroom. What a concept—a gravityless room where an especially advanced (and competitive) game of laser tag goes on. I can’t think of an activity that 7-12 year old kids would enjoy more. Honestly, I would love to play that game,…
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DecENDER: Week One Recap, one week late
Originally posted here. Um, so…yeah. Sorry about the lateness. Ender’s Game! What a group of chapters. Card seems to have written this book with increasingly long chapters, so we get five chapters in the space of about fifty pages. We’re quickly introduced to (1) Our character, (2) his background, (3) his future, (4) his competition,…
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DecENDER: Why Ender’s Game?
Originally posted here. Day One: Complete. Did you start Ender’s Game today? (Full disclosure: I didn’t. Maybe I’ll get to it at bedtime…) I’m pretty stoked about this book group. Please tell your friends and get them in on our club! People have asked why I chose Ender’s Game for the December Book Club this year.…
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DecENDER: Reading Schedule
Originally posted here. READING SCHEDULE (Monday – Sunday, with recaps on Sundays here) Dec 1-5: Chapters 1-5 Dec 6-12: Chapters 6-8 Dec 13-19: Chapters 9-11 Dec 20-26: Chapters 12 & 13 Dec 27-31: Chapters 14 & 15 It averages to about 70 pages per week—the book is a relatively quick read, so don’t be intimidated.…
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Sleigh Bells: Ideal Music Now
In which I discuss why Sleigh Bells are awesome. Read it all here.
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Now We Can Do Stuff Again!
I was feeling old and paralyzed last night as I drove home. It was my daughter’s second birthday (she has officially graduated from tiny baby to little person). It had been a typical case-of-the type of Monday; I was feeling ambivalent about the job that I like alright but don’t see myself doing forever. I…
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A Little More on the End of Dune
I’ve been running a Dune book club over at dunecember.com since December, in case you didn’t know. We (and I) just finished the book this week, and I wrote a looooong recap of the last 50 pages and discussed it a bit. I had some more that I wanted to share with regards to my…
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Dunecember: End of the Story Discussion
Have you finished Dune(cember)? I have. Let’s talk.
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Dunecember: Week 8 Roundup
Here we are: halfway through book three, most of the way through Dune. Crazy things are still happening: our main character(s) are still finding their place in their world. The protagonist and the antagonist haven’t even met yet, and we’ve only got about 50 pages left (plus the appendices)! Thus far in Book Three, the…
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