There are two ways to think about this: what’s the nerdiest thing you can think of OR what’s the most in-jokey vanity project you can think of? Either way, the answer is MLA Members Cook! This is a cookbook supposedly created by collecting recipes from members of the MLA; yes that MLA, as in the … [Read more]
Kayla understood this as a fundamental difference between men and women: men could leave, women had to stay
This is an odd book for me because it's actually a book that is less than the sum of its parts. So the plot here is that there is an incident at summer camp in the 1990s and four girls were involved, alongside an older camp "counselor" or more so an older woman working in the capacity as a … [Read more]
This is all very annoying, you know; nothing disorganizes an army so much as a war.
My whole life has more or less led me to say, I don't give a shit if someone was a general or not. Maybe it's a the various media I've consumed as a kid, a teen, a college student, and now near forty, but I have never really in my life felt any respect or reverence towards the idea of generals. I … [Read more]
What also pleased him was the stone of this countryside
This is a 1959 novel by the French writer Julien Gracq. In this novel we find ourselves on the defensive lines between the German and French borders (or at least within the combat paths of the German army) in 1939 awaiting the imminent attack. We follow Lieutenant Grange as he commands or at least … [Read more]