Weekly e-Reader
An update on the Kobo Libra Colour after a week and a half
One Thing I Like About Opus
Opus undercuts its own messages about fame by casting a bunch of really talented people
It’s Tough to Be Replaced
A post in praise of one of the best theme park productions Disney’s ever made
One Thing I Like About Black Sunday
An entirely unacademic take on Mario Bava’s classic gothic horror
Paperlike Like
A review of some good iPad screen protectors with some great customer service
Falling into Booktube
Rediscovering the intersection of art and commerce and my own overly-romanticized images of being an author
Literacy 2025: Book 7: How to Solve Your Own Murder
A solid cozy murder mystery by Kristen Perrin about a paranoid elderly woman who provided all the clues to solve her own murder
Somehow, irony feels good in a place like this
My favorite thing about the much-parodied AMC ads
I am a functional adult who totally understood Moxyland
A spoiler-filled dive back into Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland, to reassure myself that I got it
One Thing I Like About Mickey 17
The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.
Literacy 2025: Book 6: Moxyland
Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience
I Was Wrong About the New Reeder
Silvio Rizzi’s redesign of his excellent RSS reader into a unified hub for the internet makes RSS feel relevant again