What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – November 2019
Where does the time go? Spend some of it reading reviews, why don’t you?
Category: Books
Black Blades and Other Sorcerous Things
Because you demanded it! (Well, a dozen of you or so did, anyway.)
Help! What Should I Read Next? (A Reader Poll)
The Shelf of Shame is out of control. I have all these cool new books to read that I planned to write about and, well, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. I can’t decide.
Then it dawned on me– YOU can decide.
It’s a Musical!
If I were capable of feeling shame, this might be my guilty pleasure, but there’s no guilt involved. I like musicals. It’s just a damn shame that I can’t sing or dance, because I’d love to be in musical theater. I often listen to musicals at work, sometimes old classics like Camelot or Chicago, sometimes more obscure works like Threepenny Opera, or recent shows like Something Rotten, and every so often I go looking for stuff I didn’t know existed. Some of it is on the odd side.
Finding The On-Ramp, Juvenile Edition
A social-media group I belong to had one of its members pose a question that provoked a cascade of memories and suggestions, and I finally decided to put them all …
The Promise of Streaming … Betrayed?
One of the cool things about the 21st century is that it’s easy to watch just about any movie I want. Thanks to the amazing array of streaming services, I …