Hiding in the security of all things books, with some movies and tv - occasionally food...
I’m doing the Sunday Salon pretty early today. I never do it this early, but if I don’t do it early then I usually don’t have the opportunity to participate. The day just gets so busy. This is the rare weekend in which I don’t have anything planned and it’s rainy out, so it is [...]
I am a little book restless. I have been bopping around from thing to thing which is a bit unlike me. I usually pick a book and read it through to the end. Right now I have a lot of stuff in progress. I’ve been listening to The Runaway Quilt, by Jennifer Chiaverini on audio, [...]
Sadly this is my first Sunday Salon post in about a month and I can’t take much time to really enjoy it because I need to rush off to bed if I want to be functional in the morning. What can I say about March? It came in like a lion and went out like [...]
I don’t know how hopeful I am about the reading that I am intending to do today or this week. Most of the month of January and February I spent my free time in the evening and on the weekends searching for an apartment, and now I can no longer put off the fact that [...]
This is my first Sunday Salon post in a long, long while. Last year I tried a whole bunch of different memes and weekly activities just to see which ones I enjoyed and I tried out a few features of my own. So far in 2009 I haven’t participated in much of anything. I will [...]
Today was a good reading day. I spent all of Saturday with housekeeping and doing my hair, and today I got the chance to just relax. I’m hosting a giveway that ends on September 1st, 11:59pm EST. If you’s like to read Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg go here. My review is here. I [...]
This morning had been a quiet day full of reading. I have done nothing more strenuous than ponder what’s been going on in the life of characters and nap, ten I get up and read and ponder some more. Sweetness In The Belly This morning I finished the last 50 pages of Sweetness in the [...]
The year in review: January: Bel Canto, Ann Patchett The Age of Consent, Geoffrey Wolff The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien The Echo Maker, Richard Powers The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen February: The Hidden Writer, Alexandra Johnson [...]