Old School... ("Sunday Musings")
"Sunday Musings..."
Sometimes, you gotta go old school...
...because there are things that can only be expressed with the feel of paper beneath your hand and a pen in your fingers.
Making Deals with a Devil... (Review of Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World)
The job market is TOUGH. So what’s a recent college grad to do, armed with a shiny degree in whatever, saddled with a mountain of debt... and finding few—if any—job prospects? Go to work for a secretive multinational corporation dealing in “problem-solving”... essentially, a “fixer” for issues no one dares talk about, outside of hushed boardrooms? You bet. And then one day, make a deal with what may be an actual agent of Hell... all for the sake of a promotion? I mean, sure, that's a plan. Of course, such deals never come without a few strings... as one young man quickly discovers in Mark Waddell’s darkly-satirical take on climbing the corporate ladder, Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World . After several years of feeling like the lowest man on the totem pole in Dark Enterprises’ Human Resources department, earnest, cardigan-clad Colin receives the dreaded notice: he has one week to fix his latest screw-up, or f...
I sooo agree with you!!! That is how I feel about books too, I need to hold a book in my hands to read it and feel it, smell it.......no ereader books for me!
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel about books, Caren... but ironically, circumstances forced me to join the e-revolution several years ago. (First, I started doing a LOT of traveling, which made ebooks so much more practical. Later, when I picked up stakes and moved 2,000-plus miles by myself, it just wasn't feasible to take all my books with me, so I--somewhat tearfully--said goodbye to most of them, replacing the ones I missed most in e-versions.)
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