TSUNDOKU

Add to your growing pile of too many books

TSUNDOKU

(n.) buying books and not reading them; letting books pile
up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands.

Earthsea: The First Four Books

April 9, 2017

This is a collection of the first four of Ursula La Guin’s famous Earthsea novels. I have only read the first of the quartet, A Wizard of Earthsea, which introduces us to the young, promising, and conflicted boy, Ged. When Ged shows prowess during a raid on his village, he is catapulted onto a journey … More Earthsea: The First Four Books

Fight Like a Girl

April 8, 2017

Clementine Ford’s angry manifesto not just for girls, but for guys like me it is an eye-opening treatise on the inequality of our world, revealing just how far we still have to go. Despite the fury of her discourse, it never seems nothing less than justified.

Leave It to Psmith

March 27, 2017

Once again P.G. Wodehouse constructs an elaborate narrative of the absurdities and shenanigans of the aristocracy, the gentry, and the idle rich as they typically get embroiled in another of his infectious tales. This time it is the adventurous, industrious, and slightly ingenious entrepreneur Ronald Smith who decides to hire out his services to whoever … More Leave It to Psmith