Carie Juettner

Goodreads Before Goodreads

I don’t mean to make a stink here, but Goodreads really owes me quite a bit of money. You see, I had the prototype for their entire platform back in 1999, long before Otis and Elizabeth Chandler launched their website. Yep. It was called My Book Journal. My Book Journal is an offline system forContinue reading “Goodreads Before Goodreads”

Things Fall Apart… Again

Today I finished Things Fall Apart for the second time. I first studied Chinua Achebe’s book my sophomore year in high school, and while I liked it then, I did not fully appreciate it until now. In this powerful African novel, the author perfectly balances the complexity of his tale with the simplicity of hisContinue reading “Things Fall Apart… Again”

1,237 Miles in 42 Hours OR The Story of the Little Green Rock

Road Trips My dad loves to take road trips. For him the phrase is literal. He simply likes to traverse the roads of Texas. There are destinations, but the path to get there is the real fun, full of photo opportunities and yellow and black diamond signs* and miles and miles of Texas scenery. There’sContinue reading “1,237 Miles in 42 Hours OR The Story of the Little Green Rock”