100th POST: A Chat About Our Blog / Our Clip Show

This is our 100th post in 39 or so months of doing this little blog.  We have fun.  It works for us.  We do not work for it.  Nearly no one reads it, but that's cool.  We enjoy it anyway and it keeps us sane.

So, to mark our 100th post, Dave and I chatted about the blog and our favorite moments and memories.  Is it like those terrible clip shows everyone hates from random 80s shows?  Yes. Yes, it is.  But, we are children of the 80s and that's how we roll.



So, without further ado, we present, the 25booksayear "best-of" post!

Joe: 100th Post!  What is our ratio?

Dave: 60/30 you. (*presuming 10 percent by Alan and James)

Joe: I mean per year/month/week/whatever.

Dave: oh.

Joe: We need to calculate our per month ratio.  Why?  Because numbers.

Dave: uhhhh....3 a month?

Joe: See... now I have to look... I can't even blame you because I brought it up.

Dave: looking... Well, this is the 39th month of the blog, so roughly 2.5 posts a month.  NUMBERS!

Count of Monte Cristo

Well, I am finally reading it.

This was among the very first downloads I ever made on my Kindle.  My original Kindle had it first when I received it as the best gift ever about five years ago.  The Count of Monte Cristo awaited my attention during the entire life-span of that device until its demise on the same day Osama Bin Laden found his end in May of 2011 (you can read about that here http://25booksayear.blogspot.com/2011/05/sunday-bloody-sunday.html )

The book was then resurrected on my new Kindle and awaited its time patiently, forgotten and burdened by solitude.  Only now, as I embark on many new journeys of my own, does it finally illuminate itself to me in e-ink.  And, much like Edmond Dantes, it strikes out at me with great vengeance and furious anger.  (like this...)



I love this book already.  I am so disappointed to miss our first book club meeting about this great work, and so I offer my thoughts for consideration here.  I will happily miss to attend to Jacob's seventh birthday celebration (Happy Birthday, Cub!), but I would love to talk about the book.

This is your fault, Ken Burns. (Thank You)

When Joe declared that 2013 was our "Year of the Big Book", he did so, in Josephian fashion, with his Big Book choices mapped out for maximum effect. I, on the other hand, was a bit blindsided by this. Granted, I read more than a few Big Books a year anyway (already have 3 800+ page books on my list), but I needed a splashy choice. Something huge.  And that's when Joe just shrugged and said " Now you have an excuse to finally read Shelby Foote."

So, last weekend, for about $70, I bought this.....

What? Is it 2013 already?

AND March?!!?!?! Crap on a crutch, I need to get this done.

I've got a couple of hours, and my supplies ( Diet Mountain Dew and An Arturo Fuente Cigar) Without further adu, and a couple of months late, here are my favorite reads of 2012

16. As She Climbed Across The Table by Jonathan Lethem- This is Lethem very well done; trippy, intellectual, and sorrowful. I couldn't even begin to explain the plot, but I could kind of put it this way....imagine if Kubrick's 2001 was an earthbound relationship drama. (Boom, Dave, you've done it again)