It’s been a long time, but I’m back after 8 months. What have I been doing? Besides working and being a dad: learning. For about the first three months, I wrote and continued to try editing. Afterwards, I decided it wasn’t going to work, and I needed to prioritize one…

I haven't written anything on this site in awhile, and I'll address why that's happening. I've been writing stuff, yes, but I've also been learning programming. I've learned a fair amount, and included within that is PHP! So, at some point, I'll be changing my blog to use my own…

I decided to talk about this because, for the first time in several years, I haven’t been writing (much). I’ve come to the conclusion that writing isn’t the career for me. Not because I’m bad at it (in my judgment) but because of reality. Namely, capitalism. Writing’s something I truly…

Rating: 3.5 stars I had this strange idea that I’d start to read some recently written science fiction to make sure that I don’t dislike all of it because I keep harping on how much I haven’t read anything written in the last ten years (okay, more than that, but…

Rating: 4 stars This is a book that really begs to me add a lot more nuance to a rating system. It’s a good book. I’d even say quite enjoyable, but it isn’t great, especially if you think about the implications of the story (as I do towards the end…

Rating: 4.5 stars When I first realized the Friar’s Lantern was a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, I thought it was a gimmick. And I tried to think of how an author could interact with such a medium to say something. As I read the book, I realized that it pretty much is how…

Rating: 4 stars If it weren’t obvious from the title, this is fiction and not an actual story. Or is it? I read a bit on Wikipedia and the back of the book to find out the truth (doing more than that is asking a lot from me), and it’s…

Hello everyone, I think most everyone forgot about the Harper letter, and I have to admit I’m a bit slow in writing this too. I’ve been quite swamped, mostly in good ways, and it’s about time I write the blog post I wanted to about it. So you know what…

Hello everyone, An old theme came back to me as I was talking to Andy about how I took about a month to read Madame Bovary, the title of this post. He made a joke about ‘casuals’ who actually enjoy reading being inferior, and that was a joke. But it’s…

Rating: 4.5 stars It took me a long time to read Madame Bovary, around a month, and I usually read a novel-length (300 page) book in a week or two. I guess that’s the most notable thing that I’ll say about this book because everything else of substance as been…