Happy Friday Thursday, everyone! [Edited to add: Oops. Still only Thursday.] I hope you were all celebrating Banned Books Week. I sadly am not (bad librarian). Earlier in the year I broke out of my usual Everything as Long as it has to do With Victorians rut and tried out Vonnegut and Whitman. Do I … Continue reading Thank You, Nancy Bush
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Late to the Game
Hello all and Happy 2013! I am fighting a cold, hence my late arrival in the ranks of bloggers summarizing the year past. No two ways about it, 2012 has a whopper. I adopted Melba. I bought a car. I got hearing aids. I got a new job. I moved into an apartment. Three friends … Continue reading Late to the Game
Happy Wednesday
1. The freeze alert has gone off in my car for two mornings now. My cup runneth over. 2. The peppermint bark is packaged and ready for giving. It was as much of a mess to get off the cookie sheet as it was to get on. 3. I just finished reading When You Reach … Continue reading Happy Wednesday
Only at a Library Conference
A Book Nerd’s Paradise
Thank you, everyone, for all your lovely comments on the romper! I am back to fording through a sea of UFOs, but I am also reading. This return to my vow to not have another year with hardly any books in it was rather unexpected. Amidst the kerfuffle of starting a new job, I was … Continue reading A Book Nerd’s Paradise
à la Austen
One of the true things that Andrew Clements said in The School Story (which would have been good had it not been for the ending's nosedive into warm-fuzzydom) is that all writers begin as readers. I most certainly started out as a reader, and a voracious one, before becoming a writer. Even afterwards, reading is … Continue reading à la Austen
Reading
This morning escaped me as I was sitting and rereading Daddy Longlegs. Seven fifty found me dashing out the front door with coat undone, throwing on my hat, scarf, and mittens as I went. Thank goodness ours is not a neighborhood where all the neighbors are out early. Waiting in the cold and black for … Continue reading Reading
It’s Christmas Everywhere
Fa la la la fa la la lolly ting tingledy here and there. Blow music of trinkles and drinkles of glass it's Christmas everywhere. Eloise at Christmastime, by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight
Anti-Quotidian 