Friday, August 31, 2012

Rule #1,072

What Makes Books Great Rule #6:

Great books are entertaining.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Rule #1,071

What Makes Books Great Rule #5:

Great books make you question what you believe in.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Rule #1,070

What Makes Books Great Rule #4:

Great books show you a better way to understand the world.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Rule #1,069

What Makes Books Great Rule #3:

Great books show you a future both terrifying and eerily realistic.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Rule #1,068

What Makes Books Great Rule #2:

Great books have characters that feel so real that when they die it's like you've lost a friend.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Rule #1,067 (Beginning of What Makes Books Great Theme Week)

 I'm an avid reader, and some books just have a tendency to draw you and captivate you.  In honor of such wonderful books, I'm writing a week's worth of rules concerning things books do that make them equal to more than the sum of their parts.

What Makes Books Great Rule #1:

Great books have such an interesting world setting that the background itself becomes a character.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Rule #1,066

Situps are hard, too.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Monday, August 20, 2012

Rule #1,064

It's hard when your dog is a picky eater and has food allergies.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Rule #1,063

Silence is almost impossible to experience in the modern world.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Rule #1,062

Electricity is a cruel and fickle mistress.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Rule #1,061

Even with a 20% employee discount, it's still usually cheaper to buy textbooks used on Amazon.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Rule #1,060

Training your dog to let you know it wants to go outside by ringing bells is a double-edge sword.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Rule #1,059

It keeps getting harder and harder to guess the gender of an unseen person based solely on their name.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Friday, August 3, 2012

Rule #1,056

A Song of Ice and Fire Rule #6:

In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Rule #1,055

A Song of Ice and Fire Rule #5:

Fire cannot kill a dragon.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Rule #1,054

A Song of Ice and Fire Rule #4:

A Lannister always pays his debts.