Love, Sex, and Arcade Games… My Summer Reads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGBFpLlFfvM   Summer is almost here.  Hooray! Below is a list of a few books I love.  Check them out if you have a chance, and let me know in the comments what summer reading recommendations you might have. Thanks for watching! Cheers! NJ Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk  http://amzn.to/18XCx8P Sweet Surrender (Sweet Series Book 1) by Maya Banks  http://amzn.to/11FBHEx Ready Player One by Ernest Cline  http://amzn.to/183VPtD You can find me on: Twitter https://twitter.com/njoy79 Instagram http://instagram.com/njoy79# Blog http://joy365.wordpress.com/

On Success in Canada

This is one of the best descriptions of how I see Canadians, beyond things I’ve said or written: From The Canadian Settler’s Guide, 7th Edition, by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1857). You can get this book free via Google Books; I’m reading it right now on my Nexus 7. Where do we stand, politically, compared to this assessment of the character of those who built this country? I feel like we’ve become so partisan lately that we’ve lost the temperate l industriousness that Traill describes. Paddle your own canoe, folks.…

The Bookshelf Test

You know, Past Leslee’s blawg (over at http://letterstofutureleslee.wordpress.com) is a constant source of gnawed minutiae and spurious organs. When it’s not being totally random (and a little gross, based on my choice of descriptors) I get to thinking a little about what she’s writing about. And she has recently written about dating people on dates and about how you should scrutinize someone’s bookshelf to get to know them. And so I decided to do the bookshelf test on myself, to see if I’m date-able or whether I come off like a…