American Gods

Neil Gaiman

This is my first foray into the worlds of Gaiman. It was really quite intriguing.

And incredibly true at times:

An episode of Cheers began. Shadow had never watched Cheers. He had only ever seen one episode of it--the one where Coach's daughter comes to the bar--although he had seen that several times. Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart; he thought it must be some kind of cosmic law.

It really must be a cosmic law! This happens to me all the time!

I've seen Saved By the Bell four times. Three of those times it was the same episode.

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer

Still awesome. I want to live like the Lethargians!

""There's lots to do; we have a very busy schedule--At 8 o'clock we get up, and then we spend from 8 to 9 daydreaming. From 9 to 9:30 we take our early midmorning nap. From 9:30 to 10:30 we dawdle and delay. From 10:30 to 11:30 we take our late early morning nap. From 11:30 to 12:00 we bide our time and then eat lunch. From 1:00 to 2:00 we linger and loiter. From 2:00 to 2:30 we take our early afternoon nap. From 2:30 to 3:30 we put off for tomorrow what we could have done today. From 3:30 to 4:00 we take our early late afternoon nap. From 4:00 to 5:00 we loaf and lounge until dinner. From 6:00 to 7:00 we dillydally. From 7:00 to 8:00 we take our early evening nap and then for an hour before we go to bed at 9:00 we waste time."

American Nomad

Steve Erickson

This kinda broke my heart. I love Steve, but I just didn't like this.