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 [...]

2011 in Review, Part One

Last December, I participated in Reverb, an online initiative that gave bloggers prompts so that they could reflect on the past year and look forward to the new one. Reverb wasn’t back this year, but I still liked the idea of reflecting on the past year, so I’m borrowing the prompts from last year and [...]

See Something? Say Something

(Fair warning: what follows is pretty much a rant and a venting. And yes, I know exactly what kind of quagmire I’m stepping into. It’s never stopped me before.) Here in Boston, in our version of the subway – affectionately known as the T – there are signs everywhere asking commuters and tourists alike to [...]