The first indication that one might have that I am a complete and total nerd comes from simply walking into my house and looking at the kitchen counter. Right now, it’s in its natural state and I don’t wish to take a picture because there are empty crystal light packets sitting on it, so allow me to paint one with words.… [Read More]
Tag: stories
Really Great Stories
I started working on a list of books a while back that I was going to place on a page on this blog for all of my readers to see. It was to be a list of the greatest books I have ever read and it was taking a very long time to compile it because these books all impacted me on a very personal and very deep level. The biggest problem is that a lot of the works that really influenced the way I think aren’t full length novels at all. They’re short stories. These are harder to come by in terms of purchase but I still think it is worth it for you to read them, and for me to talk about them, especially because I really cannot make a list of works that changed the way I think and merely limit that list to novels. And in order to do the list justice, I needed to give the ideas that I had about each individual work time to percolate.… [Read More]
