One year ago today
Humiliating giant head squirrel feeder: If you’ve decided to surrender to the squirrels that raid your bird-feeder and just set out squirrel chow instead, why not use one of Archie McPhee’s humiliating giant-head-squirrel-feeders, which allow you to chuckle at your pests even as you capitulate to them?
Five years ago today
Jack Womack’s underappreciated masterpiece, “Random Acts of Senseless Violence”: Jo Walton (herself one of my favorite writers) reviews Jack Womack’s sorely neglected novel Random Acts of Senseless Violence, a book I rank with Uglies, The Parable of the Sower, and even The Diary of Anne Frank for being an unflinching, engrossing, difficult coming-of-age story.
Ten years ago today
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: I finished reading an outstanding novel today, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.