Thinking Out Loud
It’s January 1st, otherwise known as Resolution Day. According to every show I’ve seen, we put too much pressure on ourselves at the beginning of the year so maybe we should rename it Guidelines Day. In general, what would you like to accomplish this year in general and then more specifically without turning it into [...]
It’s just a few days until Christmas and then we hurtle towards to the new year. I set two “digital” goals this year: a picture a day at flickr and the librarything 75-book challenge. I gave up the first one in July and I’m pretty confident that I won’t finish seven more books between now [...]
…if you’re a reader, that is! Pat Conroy, author of books such as The Water is Wide and The Prince of Tides, has written a nonfiction account of his lifelong love affair with books titled My Reading Life. I chose an audio version of the book, read by the author himself, and enjoyed hours of [...]
Another two months have past…I haven’t been writing but I have been reading. With six weeks left in the year, I only have nine books to go to complete the 75 book challenge, which won’t be a problem since almost everything that has been keeping me busy for the past three months will be over. [...]
As you can see, dear readers, I have taken something of a hiatus from this blog and from my online life in general including nings and twitter and facebook. A new “part-time” job began in July but June was filled with preparations and travel. My first month on the job included lots of travel as [...]
I finished up the Abigail Adams mystery and enjoyed it, although the nature of the crime seemed somewhat 21st century to me despite the author’s best effort to show it in an 18th century light. I figured it out along with Abigail and, as I mentioned earlier, found the depiction of Boston and its daily [...]
Well, the sick husband passed the cold along to me so I’ve spent a lot of time in bed for the past 72 hours. I finished the Wyeth biography (really terrific read) and then puttered over the books to decide what to read next. I found two mysteries that seemed like perfect sick bed reading: [...]
Stayed home from church and with a sick husband sleeping on the couch, I did one of my favorite things: escaped back to bed with a big mug of coffee and a book. In my younger days, there was nothing more wonderful than a morning spent in bed with coffee and books. This morning, it [...]
I’m half way through my pile of biographies that I’m reading in March so I’m really right on track for the 75 book challenge. (Sneaking in the third book in the Knit series helped since it was a very quick read.) When I got in the car for a five-hour drive to visit family, I [...]
I started to read Bound for Glory AND the biography of Aldo Leopold. I’m about half way through the former but have finished Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire by Marybeth Lorbiecki. It was short and I sometimes missed having greater detail about the life of this extraordinary man but I liked the illustrations and [...]