This is my first Mailbox Monday post. I don’t get LOTS of books in the mail, and rarely more than one or two at a time. (And of course, I began this year planning to buy FEWER books … but please don’t ask how that’s been working out for me,…
What I’m reading (still), and what’s On Deck
Small confession: this post is more for my benefit than for anyone else, and I apologize. I have a pile of books that I really need to get to soon, and I’m putting the list down here as an extended “note to self,” so that I won’t get sidetracked by…
A learning experience: Wrap-up of my first Read-a-Thon
My first 24 Hour Read-a-Thon is done, and I’m sorry to say this top part is gonna be a mess because it’s Sunday night and I need to get ready for bed — back to work tomorrow! I did answer the questions for the “End of Event meme” already (below),…
Quick notes before I start Read-a-Thon
My tea is steeping, and as soon as I get my breakfast ready, I’m going to start reading King Dork by Frank Portman. I am slightly bummed because I forgot my poetry anthology, The Art of Losing, at work yesterday, so won’t be reading any of that one today. 🙁…
RAH RAH READ-A-THON!
This Saturday, April 10, is the 24 Hour Read-a-Thon, a very popular event in the book blogging community. I realize I’m not technically a book blogger, but I’ve learned some names, I read some of the blogs, I follow a handful of bloggers on Twitter, and if people want to…
Reading notes: My growing list of unfinished books
As you might recall, I struggled to get through Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. I’d put it aside to read a book for another commitment, I’d read parts in paperback and some of it on my iPod, I was up and down with it for weeks — and when I finally finished…
Belated post-Patty Griffin show post
FINALLY posting about the Patty Griffin concert that Jeff and I were lucky enough to attend exactly one week ago, in Lawrence, Kansas. Patty was amazing. Her voice in concert is fantastic, very much like what you hear on her CDs. The “second billed artist,” not really an opening act…
A blah blah blog post
So I have a little bit of “home alone” time, and so many things that I could do, and a few that I probably should do, like walk on the treadmill (and that would also mean watching Lost from two nights ago, and it’s supposed to be an amazing episode,…
FreeVerse: “Small Bodies” by Mary Oliver
So often, I think about participating in FreeVerse, a weekly meme hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! on Wednesdays. And so often, Wednesday sneaks up on me and I think, “Darn it, it’s already Wednesday again and I don’t have a poem to post for FreeVerse!” Today, I brought one of…
Of Paper, and Its Work
For weeks now, Jeff has had piles of paperwork and folders set aside in an area of our bedroom, waiting for me to sort through them and determine what can be recycled. This morning, after sleeping in, I woke to a few inches of snow, which immediately pushed away any…