Category: Words

I just finished Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.  It’s an enjoyable read — one I picked up on Cory Doctorow’s recommendation (and was reminded of Doctorow’s own novels while reading it).  This book did a lot of things right including landing on an ending that was important enough yet real enough that the central mystery at the heart of the plot — retroactively — seemed even better.  Sloan is a bit less message-y than Doctorow has been in his more recent books.  There’s some good points in here about technology, society, literacy, craft, immortality and values but it’s almost never …

My daughter’s English class spent a lot of time on poems this semester and her grade had a “poetry night” this week where every kid read one of the poems they had written.  It was fun — the kids, um, young adults, gave it a good shot and no one died on stage.  What can I say — I really liked my daughter’s poem.  I hadn’t read it before so I heard it for the first time when she read it that night. Supergirl Flying – a breeze floats by my face – I giggle Soaring – my cape gets …