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Friday
Apr152011

BKT Podcast Ep 11 The Thunder God Workout

We're back with a new and improved Big Kids Table podcast. This episode we discuss Game of Thrones, The Dark Tower, a world run on advertising, and the geekiest thing we've done this week.

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Thursday
Jul152010

The Top Ten Books I've Read (So Far...)

I recently told a friend that I loved Stephen King’s It and that I considered it in the list of my top ten favorite books. Their reply was: so what are your top ten books?

I knew instantly that a question like that had weight to it. I knew that the response could be equally as hefty. I could languish over the question; reasoning with myself why this particular book was worthy of being on the list and why that book wasn’t. Or, I could answer the question in the easiest way possible: rely on my (rather ample) gut; let my heart tell me the books I truly love. I decided to go with the latter. I wrote out a list of candidates (life imitating art?) and from there I let my heart guide my hand.

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Thursday
Apr222010

A Bellyful of Books

Like surfers always looking for that perfect wave to carry them to euphoria, I’m always looking for the perfect story to take me to new worlds, introduce me to new people, have me experience something I wouldn’t/couldn’t/SHOULDN’T in my everyday life.

Like my insatiable appetite for food, I tend to devour a variety of literature. From splatter horror, to fantasy, to sci-fi, graphic novels, and contemporary literature. I’m not too picky with what I read, but I do demand it’s well-written. (There’s tons of way to make a burger, but many are made exquisitely and some are made like shit.) I’ve tried to set myself a 200 page “wow me” limit: if, by 200 pages within the book, I’m not drawn-in to the story completely, it gets tossed. I own far too many books, and want to constantly add to my library, to waste time on books I don’t even want to be bothered with.

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