There's something about a scary story that is improved by the chance that it just - might - be true. That maybe it happened to a friend - or to a friend of a friend - that gives it power that makes it believable. But really, if you do the research, as Jan Harold Brunvand …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand
Believe it or not, I was a cheerleader in junior high. I was actually a cheerleader for peewee football and then I was a songleader for my school's team. I'm not sure what the difference between cheerleaders and songleaders was supposed to be. In the yearbook, the cheerleaders (8th graders all), are perfectly stacked in …
Continue reading 365 Books: One Knee Equals Two Feet by John Madden
Who is your favorite fairy tale princess? I'm kind of partial the wife in Bluebeard. But not the one who cowered and wept and waited for her brothers to rescue her. The original one, who found out what was up before she married him, then stood up at her wedding feast and exposed him for …
Continue reading 365 Books: Don’t Bet on the Prince by Jack Zipes
This Thanksgiving, my sister warned me to "bring a sweatshirt" because it was cold in Reno. It was cold in Reno. It was positively freezing in her home - we were all bundling up inside as much as we were outside. I thought she was trying to save money by not running the heat. But …
Continue reading 365 Books: How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
Do you see pictures when you read? I do - I see pictures of the world the author describes, the people (to some extent, but mostly in flashes); if the author describes someone following footprints in the dirt, I see the footprints. I thought this was normal but a recent conversation with someone made me …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Widows of Broome by Arthur Upfield
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