It’s one of those books that will make you want to hug everybody you know. And the movie is quite pleasant, too
Tag: Reviews
Shows: Cobra Kai (Season 1 and 2)
“Cobra Kai”: Good or Bad? It’s kind of like that course on Nicholas Cage in Community1 — it’s complicated.
BOOKS: If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
Tedious, pretentious, and unejoyable, I still somehow found this novel satisfying
BOOKS: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
I’d been holding onto this book for quite some time. I’m fond of Bradbury — I enjoyed the Illustrated Man, the Martian Chronicles, and Fahrenheit 451. But it was a 2012 Fringe show (Bookworm, by Corin Raymond) that got me to give him a more careful look, and which prompted me to read Something Wicked…
BOOKS: Anastasia, by Vladimir Megré
In search of a method of how to extract a valuable nut oil found in the Russian taiga, the author comes upon a young beautiful forest recluse named Anastasia. She has been living there alone since she was a child, because her parents’ brains exploded when they got too close to a tree.
BOOKS: Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
“To be 21st Century scientists on Mars, in fact, but at the same time living within 19th-century social systems, based on 17th-century ideologies. It’s absurd, it’s crazy, it’s – it’s- … it’s unscientific! And so I say that among al the many things we transform on Mars, ourselves and our social reality should be among them. We must terraform not only Mars, but ourselves.” -Arkady Bogdanov, in ‘Red Mars,’ by Kim Stanley Robinson (pg 89)