Haven’t We Been Through This Before?

So there was a bit of a rumble in book-land last week when Time magazine columnist Joel Stein wrote a New York Times essay entitled “Adults Should Read Adult Books.” In the essay, Stein compared adults reading YA literature to men viewing pornography and freely admitted that he hadn’t read any of the books he [...]

Lives, Not Politics

When I first heard that one of my favorite aunts had been diagnosed with breast cancer, I burst into tears, because I knew all too well that this was a disease that was indiscriminate and hard to understand. My second thought, thankfully, was much more practical: my aunt had a fabulous support system in her [...]

The Truth is Out There

I think it’s pretty obvious by now that I’m a pretty big geek and that much of my geek-dom centers on science-fiction. I love the Star Wars movies more than I love some of my family members, I can make the “live long and prosper” sign with both hands, I have a star-covered teddy bear [...]