The Bookworm Paradox
Why haven’t I been reading many books lately if I love them so much? Could it be because I love them TOO much?
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Author: Amy Weir
Amy M. Weir is a public youth services librarian in SW Pennsylvania, and there’s nothing she geeks out about more. Outside of work she obsesses over music (especially rock especially psychedelic pop especially The Beatles), sews clothes, gardens when the weather’s nice, avoids housework, and generally is the poster-child for Enneatype 9, which she attempts to counteract with yoga when she remembers. Her entire family has ADHD. This includes an RPG-and-firearms-geek husband who asked her out by playing a Paladin-in-Shining-Armor devoted to serving her character in D&D; a vehicles-and-video-game-geek 14yo named after a hobbit; an art-and-animation-geek 12yo named after a SFF writer; and an Imaginary Husband named Martin Freeman, who isn’t actually aware of this relationship.
Goodbye, Thomas: Train Geeks Growing Up
True train geeks don’t really outgrow their early childhood obsessions. They just change the focus to more grown up styles of train.
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Wear Your Geekdom, Make New Friends
I don’t know how it took me so long to figure this out: if people are advertising their love for your favorite things through their clothing choices, you can easily find potential friends. I guess sometimes it IS okay to judge people by what they wear.
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Confessions of a Highly-Cluttered Organizing Geek
I’m not a very organized person, but I do love the process of organizing things, whether through containers and shelving or spreadsheets and lists.
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The Many Flavors of Social Anxiety
Having been a shining example of the seeming contradictions that come with being shy for decades, you’d think I wouldn’t have been so shocked by my young extrovert’s intense bouts of social anxiety.
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What Are Your Movie Adaptation Non-Negotiables?
On the occasion of the first trailer for the new A Wrinkle In Time movie, I muse about what makes a movie adaptation of a book I love work for me.
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Kickstarter for the Rocketbook Color Notebook: The Internet of Crayons
The Rocketbook Color Notebook, now on Kickstarter, addresses the two-fold problem: how do we give compulsive young artists a surface to draw on that won’t waste paper or build up as garbage around the house, while still allowing the results to be archived, displayed, and shared?
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Not Technically My First Cosplay Experience, But…
Was it my first cosplay? It was my first time in a costume in a crowded public place (not on Halloween), and it was a special experience I wasn’t expecting.
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Am I Different? — On Claiming Identities
It’s like I imagine if I say, “This is how it is,” everyone who feels some aspect of that identity more strongly than I do will counter, “That is NOT how it is!” So how is it? Where do I fit? What right do I have to claim any sort of identity at all?
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Passing Harry Potter Down to the Next Generation
When a Harry Potter fan finally gets to share the series with her own children, it means lots of fun and surprises for everyone.
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Summer Vacation and the Introvert Writer Mom
It’s hard to find a quiet moment to oneself when the kids are home all day.
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Win an Epic ‘Captain Underpants’ Prize Pack and Read up Before You See the Movie
Win this Epic Prize Pack from Scholastic to get you ready for the new ‘Captain Underpants’ movie: two tie-in books, the original ‘Captain Underpants’ book (IN COLOR!), and a gift card!
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Make Your Own ‘Sgt. Pepper’-esque Album Cover
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest rock albums of all time by creating a version starring your own family!
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What’s a Star Wars Party Without John Williams?
‘Star Wars’ has taken over your GeekMom/GeekDad experience today, and we’ve got your reading soundtrack right here! Turn up your speakers!
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No Soap, Radio: On the Pains and Virtues of Not Getting It
Was an old “family joke” really an elaborate prank? Do I not get it, or am I the smart one? I am consumed with thirty-year-delayed paranoia!
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A “Fake Geek Girl” Waxes Rhapsodic Over ‘Agents of SHIELD’
Why isn’t anybody watching my current favorite show anymore, when it’s doing a better job than most other superhero shows and the comics they’re based on?
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Pretty in Pink Glasses: In Search of Bespectacled Girly-Girls
There still aren’t enough aspirational characters in children’s media who wear glasses, and girls with glasses, even less. Girls want to see that having glasses doesn’t decrease their ability to be beautiful, popular, or girly, if they want to be.
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Kill It With Fire: Fun With a Garden Flamethrower
Have you ever weeded with a flamethrower, I mean, a garden torch? It’s safer than herbicides and yet so much more exciting!
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How We Did Our Minecraft Birthday Party
Decorating, food, and activities for a Minecraft-themed birthday party, as tested by a ten-year-old Minecraft fanatic and his friends.
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When Your Kids Crack the Code (of Reading)
The single most thrill-inducing milestone I’ve watched my children hit in the past ten years was not their first teeth or their first steps. It wasn’t even the first day of school or the day we bid goodbye to diapers, although that was awesome. No, the moments that made me most giddy were when they learned to read.
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