I was talking with Michael recently about what our screennames were, back when everyone used AOL instant messenger. Mine was raendrop316 and I thought it was really clever because my name sounds like rain AND it incorporated my first name and last initial. The numbers were just because I liked the numbers 3 and 16.Continue reading “mr. mercedes: screennames”
Tag Archives: mystery
family book club: house of leaves
A house with a dark secret. A creeping sense of foreboding. A story told through documents, footnotes, and scraps of paper. House of Leaves is like nothing I’ve read before. How this story is told is as much a part of the experience as the story itself. In a committed storytelling device, we meet ourContinue reading “family book club: house of leaves”
the cuckoo’s calling part 1
It is a not so secret desire of mine to become a police detective. It is my back up plan, my alternate universe career, and the subject of quite a few daydreams. I can’t stop watching cop shows or reading murder mysteries. (And yeah, I know that’s not exactly how it works in real life.)Continue reading “the cuckoo’s calling part 1”