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Whatchamacallit 148: Felix Ever After

I ran across this book somewhere and decided to order it: Felix Ever After

This is an amazing book about an FTM teenager attending high school in Brooklyn, exploring themes around love, friendship, transphobia, being rich, no longer being rich, being rejected, and more.

It is also one of the best written books that […]

August 16th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: books, Covid-19, Queer | Comments are closed

Every Day by David Levithan

This past week one of my favorite authors, David Levithan, had his newest book published, Every Day, over in the United States.

Historically speaking, I would now be excited, in the abstract, order the book, then have to wait for me and the book to unite, whether via a visiting friend’s suitcase or me making […]

August 31st, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: books | Comments are closed

always hard 2 red

I must come out of the closet: I am a spelling and grammar Taliban.

Maybe that’s a bit too dramatic. I’m not perfect and I do take shortcuts along the way.

Ultimately my goal is to communicate ideas—and each as clear as possible.

I’ve ceded some strict middle- and high-school rules. I’m not as insistent […]

December 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Media Criticism, Meta/Computing | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Caught Catching Catcher in the Rye

I recently confessed to the fact that I’d never read Catcher in the Rye – actually, it was back in July that I made this confession—and the truth is that I read the book about a week later and have had it sitting on my shelf waiting for me to blog about it ever since.

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November 14th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Diary | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)