The Book of Goodnight Stories by Vratislav Stovicek(re-read) I got this book a long time ago because I had it as a kid and I wanted my kids to have it. There are 365 stories, one for each day of the year, although a lot of them are multi-parters, and each day is only about 250 words. I have fond memories of this book, but on the re-read, it started becoming hard to get through. The stories I remember as a nine-year-old weren’t as full of whimsy and wonder. The tales weren’t diverse and magical. They started getting samey (right around August, I believe) and it’s not as much a…
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The Books I Read: January 2015 – February 2015
Joss Whedon: The Biography by Amy Pascale I’d been looking for a book about Joss Whedon since December. There had been a few biographies, but then I saw this one was about to come out. It looked the most official — even having a foreword by Nathan Fillion — so I waited. It becomes little more than an IMDB page after a while. I don’t read many biographies, so maybe this is what they’re like. I wanted to know more about his family life or his writing life, I didn’t need to know what happened with Firefly or The Avengers. I already follow the guy. I already knew that. Except…