...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five n….

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are ….

It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality..

This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried man….

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected.

If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty..

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight..

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work..

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books..

I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes p….

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits..

I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a l….

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage..

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want..

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant ….

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own r….

But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I….

Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. ….

I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just googl….