Holiday treat
Praise from Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, who includes Something Missing in his Ten Books You Will Just Simply Enjoy.
Bad book covers
Joe Queenan recently wrote an essay in the Sunday Book Review about how bad book covers can influence his reading choices. I feel his pain. Bad book covers have kept…
Challenging literary analysis
Tonight, I was reading Eric Carle’s The Very Lonely Firefly to my daughter. Though I like the book a lot, I apparently never fully understood the story. As the firefly…
Honesty gets you nowhere
I must have been living in a cave four years ago when Ayelet Waldman published this piece in which she says she loves her husband more than her children. In…
New name. New design. Same writer.
In case you haven’t noticed, the masthead of this blog changed today. The original masthead, designed by my wife, reflected the blog’s previous URL. That address, matthewdicks.com, is now the…
Judging people based upon viewing choices
It might not be nice, but I often judge people by the television shows they watch while exercising at the gym. Each machine has its own TV, and I find…
Rock opera update
Last night, my friend Andy and I had our first reading (and listening) of the rock opera we have been working on for several months. A group of friends gathered…
Handerpants!
Katherine from Bunch of Grapes Bookstore recently made me aware of the fabulousness of Handerpants. I know. Handerpants are nothing new. I have a friend who wears a version of…
