The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation’s most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing…

Shout out to my Pinterest Addicts! I’m having fun with this Pinterest thing!  I never really thought of myself as a visual person, but now when I’m reading I’m thinking of the images I pinned. I have the tendency to get caught up in that section when you first walk into the library of recommended books.  Usually I find an author I’ve never heard of, and every now and again…

Here’s the deal. I’m thirty-five. Soon to be thirty-six next month.  I feel like there was a time I was “hip” and “cool” and “down” with technology. I was one of the only seniors in high school to have an email address and was pretty darn good at surfing the web using Infoseek and Lycos on my sweet dial-up AOL account.  Fast forward through various screen names on Telnet in college…