On the whole, a good month of reading. Again, only books from the challenge list as I try to wrap that up, but I liked them more than I didn’t, so whee. Big improvement. * Nights at the Circus – Did you watch Big Fish? Did you like it? In some ways, this story feels [...]
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Not a lot this month since many of these were pretty chunky. But they’re all from the challenge, knocking off quite a few more as we close in on the year. *The Book Thief – This is one of those really hot books of the past couple years and I wasn’t quite sure I was [...]
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art- Totally weird because Seth references this book in the one of his I read below. I picked it up because of someone else’s recommendation and had finished it by the time I read Seth’s book. This is a fascinating read, treating comics as an academic subject and presented in (surprise!) [...]
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Read This Before Our Next Meeting – My friend Al has a book! Go, Al! I actually was on the pre-release list (so the book was sent to me free in hopes of a review) and had it read by the day it came out. In reality, I had it read in about 45 minutes. [...]
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* St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Love, love, love that title, which is why I picked it for a challenge read this year. And … not what I expected. It’s short stories, which are fine, just generally unsatisfying because they offer such a brief glimpse. And require more work. Kind of [...]
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on November experiment: Scheduling myself for strategic success
