My goal this year has been to read at least one book per month (I also read a bunch of magazines, but think it's important to keep up the skill of sustained reading). My January book was The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. It's about the death of her husband and the hospitalization of her daughter (who later…

Finally got to The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. I had picked it up multiple times before but the format always put me off, but this time I pushed through the beginning and it turned out to be as great as everyone said.

Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dream is pretty great R&B.

Totoro is one of my favorite movies, I'm always glad to see it recognized as the masterpiece it is.

I love this show and am officially making it known that I think you should cover it week by week. I'm relatively new to AV Club and tonight was the first time i noticed this show was filed under "Other", which is not the treatment it deserves.