Tag: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

• 13 In ’13: A Pop Culture Omnilist

  Standard operating procedure for making year-end culture lists says to rank your ten favorite films/albums/books, but I’ve recently soured against this convention. Choosing a pre-determined number of “the best” among many great works, as all award shows do, is great entertainment but entirely arbitrary. So this time around, I decided to institute my own arbitrary […]

  January 14, 2014

  Books, Film, Music, Review

  12 Years A Slave, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Before Midnight, Chris Hadfield, Francis Spufford, Gravity, Haim, Her, House of Cards, Like Someone in Love, Lucius, Neil Gaiman, Rod Dreher, Short Term 12, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, This Is Martin Bonner

• A Novel Ninevember

  Fiction usually isn’t my thing, but I want to get better at it. So I’m reading nine novels in November’s thirty days and writing about them here. I’ll update this post as I go along. Some spoilers, natch. Update: Just made it through the ninth book, with only hours to spare. I’m very glad to have deepened […]

  November 12, 2013

  Books, Review

  Ender’s Game, Fahrenheit 451, Fortunately the Milk, Gilead, Jerry Spinelli, Lois Lowry, Marilynne Robinson, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Paul Coelho, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Ray Bradbury, Stargirl, Stephen Chbosky, The Alchemist, The Giver, The Ocean at the End of the Lane