Recent (and not so recent) reading

[eleneariel]

Although not common on Discworld there are, indeed, such things as anti-crimes, in accordance with the fundamental law that everything in the multiverse has an opposite. They are, obviously, rare. Merely giving someone something is not the opposite of robbery; to be an anti-crime, it has to be done in such a way as to cause outrage and/or humiliation to the victim. So there is breaking-and-decorating, proffering-with-embarressment (as in most retirement presentations) and whitemailing (as in threatening to reveal to his enemies a mobster's secret donations, for example, to charity.) Anti-crimes have never really caught on. 

Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

Evan came out to watch me. Something about me on a ladder always seemed to draw his attention. He stood in the shade in the yard on the other side of the driveway. Toddlers never sit when they are spectators. Invariably theystand. Something in their legs gives them the impulse to participate, even as their consciousness refuses to explain this. They watch, imagining imitation, and bouncing imperceptibly to its rhythm. In this regard, at least, I was an excellent father. I was forever providing a live imagine of something a small boy might wish to try himself, something involving a hammer or a saw or an act of suspension ten feet in the air or something generally dangerous or violent or related to wet paint.

All the Way Home, David Giffels

This man had Rod Stewart's hair. I don't mean this figuratively, as in, "he had hair very much like that of pop singer Rod Stewart." I mean he appeared actually to have purchased the scalp of Rod Stewart on the black market and had had it surgically affixed to his head.

All the Way Home, David Giffels

In this book, we'll examine the inherent danger when the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred; when the public becomes accustomed to seeing celebrity disfunction or acting out portrayed as sexy, compelling, and dramatic; and when these corrosive behaviors are increasingly mirrored in our lives and those of our children.

The Mirror Effect, Dr. Drew Pinsky