I love Matthew Inman — if you’ve never checked out his comics, do so right now! “Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It’s an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It’s a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game. It’s a fun, monstrous reason to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So, do yourself a favor: go build a monster.” Inman writes a lot about his running on his website, […]
Sweet and sad and kind of wonderful
I listened to this one as an audiobook, narrated by Jim Broadbent. I highly recommend the audio version — besides the fact that it’s so easy to picture Harold as Jim Broadbent in the Bridget Jones movies (seriously!), it’s also a great book to let slowly unfold while doing a bit of walking yourself. “If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I’m going to get there. I’ve begun to think we sit far more than we’re […]
Bear won’t let a few broken vertebrae stop him!
I love reading books about people living really, really adventurous/dangerous lives — especially mountain climbers. Mountain climbing fascinates me, because it seems like something I could possibly do (hey, I lift weights, I run, I hike — how hard could it be?) until I read peoples’ accounts and realize 1) it’s really cold up there and 2) no way in hell could I do that because I am a total weenie. I also love Bear Grylls, despite (as my husband continually reminded me while I read this book) the […]
But somebody has to do it
I’ve read quite a few Christopher Moore books, but my favorite has to be Practical Demonkeeping, which I first read — no joke — probably 20 years ago. A Dirty Job was pretty good, but mostly made me want to reread Practical Demonkeeping, which apparently has sequels that I’ve never heard of and must get my hands on now! If you’re familiar with Christopher Moore, then the plot of this one won’t surprise you: our protagonist, Beta Male Charlie, accidentally becomes a master of death after witnessing another one take […]