1) Odd Girl Out This was the webtoon that got me into webtoons. It’s ongoing and was good enough to get a K-Drama adaptation made of it. Here’s the official summary: “After a successful winter break makeover, Nari is finally ready for her high school debut. But somehow, she ends up friends with the three…
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[009] Book Review: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
As someone who likes both words and biographies when I saw the title The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary I knew that it was something that I had to pick up. I don’t regret that choice. Delivered in a somewhat high class British…
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[005] Book Review: The Book of Psalms
Psalms. The biblical book of songs. Likely you’ve seen or heard a few of them such as “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” or “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort…
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[003] Book Review: The Defining Decade | Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
Let’s be honest the people who need to read this book the most are the ones who are the least likely to. Maybe you fall into that camp, so I’ll do my best to summarize it here. “The Defining Decade” is not a book about fictional people. It is a book about real people. We…
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[002] Light Novel Review: If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord Volumes 1-4
One hundred and fifty. This is the number of instances that my Google Play Books’s word counter could find the word “cute” in the first four books of the light novel series “If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord”. So cute is a good word then to describe this series which…
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[001] Book Review: On the Run | Fugitive Life in an American City
In high school, I sold Little Debby snack cakes during our morning break. I never made much but at least I could throw some money down on my phone bill or put some gas in my truck. For the poor young blacks of 6th Street depicted in Alice Goffman’s book “On the Run: Fugitive Live…
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