Mateo de Colón

My son read this book in his AP Freshman English class. I don’t remember ever reading this book but since I just read The Grapes of Wrath I thought I’d read this one as well, especially since it is only 100 pages. I think I’ve had my fill of early 1900’s poverty in California but…… Continue reading Of Mice and Men

I read this book because Christina Applegate was a small part of my childhood. The first and only ‘girly poster’ I bought was of her and I can still remember my dad bringing my uncle to my room to see it and both of them laughing. I placed her poster on my closet door that…… Continue reading You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir

Though this book I learned much about a period of US history I’m not very familiar with. In school we have our history lessons but they’re usually just facts and figures combined with some photographs. This isn’t enough to give us a true feeling of what people went through. The closest we can come to…… Continue reading The Grapes of Wrath

I’m very glad that the first part of my life was without the internet and all this relatively new technology. My family didn’t get our first computer – an Apple 2C – until I was a sophomore in high school. From that point on I was an eager and enthusiastic adopter of all things tech.…… Continue reading The Anxious Generation

For most of my life I’ve been an enthusiastic technology adopter. I’m older so I remember the utopia the original internet was supposed to bring about. We were to be more connected, better informed, and this was to lead to a better society and perhaps even world peace! Obviously this was an illusion and instead…… Continue reading Enshittification

This is a children’s book that I’d forgotten completely about until I heard it mentioned in the T.V. series Stranger Things. I thought it would bring back some nostalgia rereading it as well as other children’s classics. Now that I’ve finished, I’m questioning myself if I’ve ever read this book since there isn’t even a…… Continue reading A Wrinkle In Time