Hi,
Did you know November 2 is 'Look For Circles Day'?
Me neither.
Let's celebrate with some circular bullet points:
● Speaking of monthly celebrations, November should be 'A Blog Post Every Day Month' on TOA. Or in plain English: starting next Thursday, look for a blog post.
● For those trying to keep track at home, this is what to expect on TOA until I drop dead from blogging-induced exhaustion:
● Sunday: Reading Review
● Monday: Leftovers
● Tuesday: 'Reading Review' hypothetical book series (more on this tomorrow)
● Wednesday: Ranting/raving essay-like substance
● Thursday: (NEW!) short post, ~300 words
● Friday: Wednesday (except shorter)
● Saturday: Sunday (except shorter)
● New faces coming in UPDATE #1: I am overjoyed to confirm the return of 'Talking Shits' under a new banner: Master Pu's Pu-Pu Platter.
I don’t know who this Master Pu is. He barely spoke when I interviewed him for the job. But when he did speak…WHOA! It should be an interesting attempt to revive a dying concept for TOA.
● New faces coming in UPDATE #2: I am less than pleased to confirm the return of Moya. Longtime readers will recall his bimonthly rants in the 'proper admin' series. One day, he showed up and just started ranting. I asked him to leave but he kept talking. Finally, I poured him a whiskey and offered him a job.
● New faces coming in UPDATE #3: I am greatly saddened to confirm the return of The Business Bro to these parts. I guess his 'separate blog' venture never panned out. Look for him to mind his own business on these pages every so often.
● Thanks for reading this past month.
● Tim
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Books I'm excited to (probably) read this month...
Dense: Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus
Dubus is well known for his accomplishments in short fiction (because you know this is true whenever an author has a book published with a title like Selected Stories) but I've opted to start into his work with this collection of twenty-two personal essays.
The Goodreads.com summary described his writing in Broken Vessels as 'sensitive but never maudlin'. I'll be sure to run the rule over that assessment, reader, as I work through this collection in the coming weeks.
Stop-and-go: Threads by Kate Evans
This book is set in 'The Jungle', a refugee camp located within the French port town of Calais. Evans volunteered there for several months and produced this book as a result of her reporting.
What makes this book a little different is its use of 'comic journalism'. I only flipped through a few pages at random when I checked this out but I suspect I'm on to something good here, reader.
Light: The QB Whisperer by Bruce Arians
Arians is an NFL head coach who has worked with several top quarterbacks over the course of his decades-long coaching career. This book will be an interesting look into some of his insights about helmet football's most difficult position.
It will not go down in history as one of the most difficult books I will ever read. This is not unusual for these kinds of sports books where the 'author' is really just speaking to a writer who is organizing the commentary into book form. I'm looking forward to this one but cannot recommend it to any reader not already interested in quarterbacking.
In the next month of...True On Average...
1) I eat some peanut M&Ms before a job interview.
2) I organize a search party for some missing colors.
3) A lesson on how to say 'do shut up'...in Japanese!
See you in November...
