On Fluency: Spanish, BYU, and All the Words
My first Spanish class in college was during the fall. It was my second year at Brigham Young University (a year which was unexpectedly abbreviated due to havin...
Author: Lindsey Halsell
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...
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...