Memoir

Savior

2 September 2010 2 comments

“I want to save the world, but sometimes the world doesn’t want to be saved.”

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Tumbling

30 July 2010 2 comments

“When I was a child my grandfather had a rock tumbler.”

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

30 April 2010

“In Shakespeare they are utterly lacking in distinguishing characteristics, serving more as a plot mechanism than as living characters. They come on stage, advance the plot a bit, are cruelly used by Hamlet, and then sent away to die.”

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The Lord of the Rings

30 April 2010

“Debbie was thrilled that I enjoyed it so much, and told me about another book by the same writerâ€”actually three books telling a single story, which was related to The Hobbit, but more adult. I begged her to bring them in for me, so on Friday she brought in the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. I couldn’t wait to get a chance to start reading it.”

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Another Roadside Attraction

30 April 2010

“Robbins’ sprawling tale of a Washington hot dog stand, a mystical earth mother, and the Second Coming of Christ is dizzying, especially when you’re a white suburban 15 year old kid who reads too much in the first place.”

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The Wizard of Oz

30 April 2010

“A sack of clothes wakes up while being stuffed with straw? A woman dissolves when she gets wet? A race of tiny people made of china, who can only move if they stay in the area where they are born?”

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Christa

30 April 2010

“She got better grades than me. She always knew the answer, but didn’t jerk her hand into the air when the teacher asked for volunteers, waiting instead to be called on. She had long, straight brown hair, and mismatched eyes, one green, one blue. And she was clearly smarter than me. It was love at first report card.”

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The Other Side

30 April 2010

“As I made the right onto her street, I started to get a creepy feeling, like something was wrong. I saw her walking towards my car, from the bushes at the side of the road. She was saying something, but I had the AC on and couldn’t hear. I rolled down the passenger window to hear her, and she started to shout ‘Look out!’”

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