Archive for December 2023

It was another doozy of a year for publishing and here is the blog post you've all been waiting for: LPL Staff's Best Books of 2023.  Chain-gang All-stars "Set in n a near future dystopia where our for-profit prison system has developed a controversial program for capital offenders, this was difficult to read at times…

"What the Indians here used to do, was, to burn out the brush every year in the woods, up the gorges keeping the oak and pine stands tall and clear..."  - Gary Snyder, "Control Burn" (line breaks omitted), 1971. “The idea that we need to just let nature take its course really underestimates the management…

When I was a kid my favorite thing about visiting my dad at work was his Pet Rock.  It lived on his desk, a gag gift from a friend, in the original packaging: a box with holes in it, a bed of straw and the whole bit.  I still can’t look at a photo of…

Chilly weather always puts me in the mood for chilling reads - books that have characters fighting for survival in the wintery wilderness or taking shelter in isolated cabins/manors/inns while winter rages outdoors and a killer is lying in wait indoors amongst unsuspecting victims. Books like these send shivers down my spine and I love…

Earlier in November the first trailer for the Mean Girls Movie Musical was released. Sadly, the trailer did not give any indication it was going to be a musical

When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with the idea of reading "all the classics". You know the books I'm talking about, the stuffy old ones written by dead white dudes who lived (sometimes literally) about a thousand years ago.