All Consuming

Items Shannon consumed in…

March, 2008



  1. Monday 3
    0061147931

    Finished consuming…
    Heart-Shaped Box — 35 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: horror contemporary speculative fiction first novel ghost story keeper 2007 year's best


  2. Wednesday 5
    01pslmq1-nl

    Finished consuming…
    Dark Tower Long Road Home #1 Comic — 1 person

    Worth consuming! Tagged: stephen king


  3. Saturday 8
    055338290x

    Finished consuming…
    Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Revised Edition — 6 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: reference well-rounded


  4. Wednesday 12

    Finished consuming…
    Fragile Things — 25 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: fantasy short stories contemporary spirituality speculative fiction 2006 keeper year's best


  5. Friday 21

  6. Thursday 27
    1400079098

    Finished consuming…
    Operating Instructions — 26 people

    Not worth consuming Tagged: nonfiction 20th century best modern library just ok


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    Operating Instructions (1993) — 27 weeks ago

    NOT WORTH CONSUMING

    I was not so impressed by this “must-read” journal of Lamott’s trials and tribulations as she deals with her newborn. Maybe when it was published, it was taboo for a mother to casually remark that she’d like to throw her colicky baby out the window or confess that she let her infant fall off the futon (twice!), but in this age of mom-blogging, such confessions are almost trite. The journal reads exactly like a, well, journal, not my favorite type of reading material (I don’t even like to read my own journals). I guess my expectations were a little higher.

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    Slaughterhouse Five (1969) — 27 weeks ago

    WORTH CONSUMING!

    It took me this long to read Vonnegut’s classic time travel novel—about Billy Pilgrim, who has become unstuck in time—and of course I now wonder why I wated. I was inspired to finally pick up this novel by the episode of Lost in which Desmond similarly becomes unstuck in time, but I was surprised to find that this novel is not only an exploration of time travel but also a potent anti-war novel and even a fair piece of Zen Buddhist musing. After all, if every moment in your life happens simultaneously and no moment can be changed, living in the moment and accepting all states of life—including death—becomes the only option.

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    Fragile Things (2006) — 27 weeks ago

    WORTH CONSUMING!

    A collection of “short fictions and wonders,” including stories, poems and other short pieces, as well as a novella featuring Shadow, the main character from American Gods. For the most part, the stories are weird, creepy, fun horror and dark fantasy. Gaiman includes a lengthy introduction with notes on each piece. I found it interesting that he only wrote a story or poem when specifically commissioned to do so—none of these pieces was written on impulse. All in all, I enjoyed these as much as any of Gaiman’s longer works.

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    A story about "Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel" — 12 weeks ago

    WORTH CONSUMING!

    My review is here.

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