Thinking Out Loud
Since my post on April 6, I haven’t been able to really concentrate on a book. I read Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise, which turned out to be Christian fiction, a genre I have not read before. It was fine…not so preachy but more about trusting God and being in community. Feisty, quirky characters, [...]
Suddenly, there are books everywhere…audio books, free digital books, books from the book fair. And I just can’t decide what to read next. After getting two teeth pulled Wednesday morning, I spent the rest of the day reading and managed to read Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews from start to finish. It was fun, [...]
I headed across the state to Harrisonburg for a workshop and left early enough to have time to stop into the Green Valley Book Fair. Off the beaten path, this warehouse is a book lover’s dream…sprawling shelves and tables with a wide variety of books. It is only open for several weeks at a time [...]
Just finished Quentins, fourth in a series of novels by Maeve Binchy set in Dublin. I liked the way the threads of the three previous novels came together around the story of the restaurant although I found the main character incredibly frustrating. There were times when I just wanted to shake her. The three previous [...]
So far, I have stuck with my resolution not to buy books. The local library is tiny but has a great fiction selection. I could have easily walked away with three or four when I visited earlier this week. I limited myself to just two: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, a tale of Mormons [...]
According to Library Thing, I read 33 books this year. It’s definitely a low for me. I usually get closer to 50 and last year got close to 75 as part of a challenge. It’s a testament to two things: moving to the farm and getting stuck with a couple books. While the move to [...]
In my 20s, when I dabbled in vegetarianism, Diet for a Small Planet was something of the holy book. In those days, I baked most of the bread I ate with Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book guiding the way . Then real life intervened with work and higher education and other interests, and I drifted in [...]
My favorite season. Cool crisp days and long shadows that come earlier each evening. They’ve started harvesting the corn in the field next door, the huge alien creature chewing through the stalks. There’s pot roast for dinner, and I spent an hour this afternoon making the scarecrows in the picture. Aren’t they a hoot! I [...]
I claimed early in the year that I was taking a break from the competitive reading and photography that was part of 2010. Instead, I was going slow. I didn’t even keep up with posting an already taken picture every day. The year just got away from me somehow and buying a house and moving [...]
I am reading a library book! That’s right…a public library book that I will have to return in two weeks. Of course, I’ve already had to renew it once but I’m confident in my ability to finish it this time. I checked it out along with another book and a music CD when I attended [...]