Dave Eggers has at least two new books for kids this year with Abner & Ian Get Right-Sided Up is the second one I read. The first, Most Likely Tomorrow was not a huge hit for me story wise, but I enjoyed the illustrations greatly. However, I enjoyed the story immensely more than Abner & Ian. I was amazed that both books were done by the same author considering how radically different the stories are. Plus, they are being publisher by two different publishers and […]
Mostly Likely you’ll love this book if you give it a try
A coworker asked me if Tomorrow Most Likely was as cute as it is supposed to me. I said, “Weeeellll… My logic is taking over.” How do you explain that maybe you will not have met Cousin Todd today? Or the sky is not blue today? After all the text of Dave Eggers makes it seem like it will happen. But then I thought, that this is a good discussion book. He does say “most likely” and when you do not meet a squirrel named […]
Coffee is a food group
This book took me a little longer to read than I anticipated, in part because I was so busy talking about it. It’s incredibly well-written, exceptionally fascinating, and a g-d TRUE STORY and if you’re anything like me, not fully awake till your third cup of coffee, you’ll love it. The Monk of Mokha is another book where I didn’t read the description closely enough and thought it would be a novel (I mean, c’mon, look at that cover). But nope. Pretty quickly it established that […]
Has he ever met a person?
I kind of get why the movie fell flat–the source material wasn’t much to pull from. There’s an intriguing concept here. Imagine all digital connection (social media, searches, communication, commerce, streaming) was conducted through a single entity, here called The Circle. It started as an idea to dissuade trolls (forcing everyone to use their real, verified identity online) and has quickly evolved into a for-profit company that has a near monopoly on the internet. With your real identity, you can access everything you need to […]