The Sonic has a lot of settings…
THERE’S A GAY MARRIAGE SETTING
Chapter Eighteen
Roads to Safe Places
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds posses is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the…
*waves at pat* he’s about 20 feet from me. i see him a few times a week. cool dude.
My grandparents owned a farm with no animals on it. I was ten years old. It was a big old wooden house out in the middle of nowhere. There was a rotting barn and a dried up damn.
A good setting for a ghost story, now that I think about it.
My grandfather, retired,…
oo.. interesting
Released today, the new album from The Shins is one that I’ve been looking forward to for a while. After listening to it for about a week, I can say that it pretty much lived up to the hype.
It’s not gamechanging, experimental, monumental, or any other mental, but it is really good. It’s fun….
Best Album of the Year So Far.. just saying.
Putin’s literary canon for Russia:
In January, during the run-up to Russia’s March 4 election, the front-runner, Vladimir Putin, proposed “a canon of 100 Russian books that every school leaver will be required to read at home … and then write an essay about one of them.” Reading, according to Putin, is not just an elective individual activity, but one that has decisive implications for the nation. “State policy with regard to culture must provide appropriate guidelines,” he wrote in an essay in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper, and culture shapes “public consciousness and … patterns of behavior.” The Kremlin’s duty, Putin explained, is to counter the decline in literacy and restore Russia as “a reading nation.”
plus Battle Royale
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Reader Submission: Title by comedian Tyler Snodgrass
What this is all about
I work in a bookstore. The pay is tiny, but it’s probably the best job you could ever possibly imagine. I’m constantly surrounded by books and even taking into account the garbage that is published daily, there’s still an insane amount of decent literature to choose from. In fact, there are so many solid books to read, it’s usually hard to make a decision on what to read next. Dozens of people ask me every day what I think of the latest book on the best sellers list. I usually just lie. I’m not psychic; I don’t know every single piece of information about every single book published. But I definitely try my damndest to learn. I mean, in the last week I’ve read about half a dozen books. A few solid reads I can’t help but suggest:
“I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson
“Doctor Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After The Bomb” by Philip K. Dick
And if you don’t mind some religious overtones, there is:
“The Folk Of The Fringe” by Orson Scott Card.
Those are just the ones that come to mind as I write. I read fast, I mean really fast. I can read an average length novel in the time it takes some people to read their Sunday paper. I can also retain the knowledge. And this isn’t me bragging, it’s just stating a fact. Okay, I’m kind of bragging a bit, but it took years of practice to be able to read and retain books the way I do, and I’ve decided to offer my services to the masses. You suggest the book; I’ll read and review it. The subject matter doesn’t particularly matter; all I ask is that it has the potential to be interesting.
I used to write quite frequently, but the last few years the muse has been silent. I probably starved it with my lack of ambition and poor taste in recreational activities, so I’m asking you to force me to feed it. The more I read, the more it feeds, the more I write, the more I live. Life isn’t just about what you see or hear; it’s about who you are and what you create. So I’m asking for your help, you suggest the book, I will read it. If I can’t buy it, ill borrow it. The means aren’t that important, all you need to know is it will get done. So toss the idea around in your brains and let me know what you’d like reviewed.
