New Work, Old Work, What’s the Difference Once Your Head’s Blown Off
Book review: Makers by Cory Doctorow Ever since I read Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson last year, I’ve been captivated by the make...
Author: Lindsey
Sweet Dreams are Made of Monstrous Alien Creatures
I think that I normally have shitty dreams. I don’t know this for certain. I cycle through phases of dream-remembering and dream-forgetting. Perhaps it is...
Search Terms
I was feeding my ego by checking my site stats and I noticed that someone found my blog by searching “lindsey halsell amazon wish list” on Google. I...
2014: The Year Ahead
I genuinely love New Year’s Day. I find that it is a good time to think about the upcoming year and decide what I want to do with it. I’m not talkin...
2013: The Year in Books
It’s new year’s eve and it is time for my annual list of the books I read for the year. I read the entire Wheel of Time series this year, which was ...
All Hail the All-Father
Book review Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths by Nancy Marie Brown So, a few weeks ago we saw the new Loki movie—excuse me—Thor movie an...
Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric Makes Me Want to Smash Things
Every time I see another argument against the apparent evil that is vaccines, I feel the urge to smash faces or throw heavy things around. Vaccines are widely r...
New Voices from Oz
Oz Reimagined is a great collection of short stories on the topic of, of course, Oz. There are 15 stories collected from notable writers in science ficti...
Based on a True Story
The walls here are soft, not like a blanket but like one of those boards that you can stick pieces of felt to for telling stories to children. Maybe one day I’l...
A Cult I Had Never Read about Before: the Independent Fundamental Baptists
UPDATE MARCH 29, 2023: A lot of people seem to find this post (I assume you’re asking the internet if IFB is a cult) so I am adding a note. If you feel li...