JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Yesterday’s Seattle Times printed a review of a book I’d like to read (put it on hold at the library – I’m #2 in line). I think I saw it in a window while walking through downtown Winslow the other day. The anthology Reading Seattle: The City in Prose attempts to disprove a 19th century […]

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This week Jeffy at Mad Times posted his review of Getting Things Done by David Allen. I appreciate how Jeffy described the book’s methodology. I confess I’ve gone a bit off the bandwagon from where I once was with getting things done. Part of that is because our life is a bit slow and simple […]

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One of the books I read while en route to Boston and back was Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture. The subtitle of the book is How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Today seems to be a particularly appropriate day to post my summary of this book, as […]

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again in the summer. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, page 4

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David Weinberger wrote: Reading to a kid flips reading – our paradigm of what you do when alone – into a social act. And it opens the book up in a new way. But reading into a microphone for public consumption is something else again. It’s like taking the book out for a spin: You’re […]

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