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 [...]
With the state technology conference just a few days away, I am a little busy. But today I just needed a break. I used some minor conference related errands as an excuse for a little book therapy and slipped into the local Books A Million. There I found As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia [...]
A breezy sunny Saturday with no plans. In the words of Annie Dillard, I’ve really “spent” the morning, wandering through the woods with the dogs, then touring the yard, picking a nice big basket of strawberries, and taking some photos. The strawberry photo is my flickr photo for today. Other chores are done…the sheets are [...]
I took some time to update my reading list on LibraryThing and discovered that I’ve reached 25 books. One third of my goal! I finished The Age of Chivalry, a National Geographic book from 1969. I’ve got a volume about the Renaissance that I dug out of the linen closet. But first there are books [...]
On April 2, I posted to this blog that I had started reading Rebel, the first book in the Starbuck Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell’s Civil War series and decided to make Civil War books my theme for April. Later that same day, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell declared April to be Confederate History Month and set off [...]
So, how did it get to be Friday again? We lived through the snow storm over the weekend and the rest of the week just flew by. I have been taking pictures for Project 365 at flickr.com and here’s a sampler: 1. 01/365 for 2010 Star Light, Star Bright, 2. 02/365 for 2010 Little Birdie, [...]
I added a few new book blogs to my aggregator including Should Be Reading. I like the way the MizB has weekly topics including Musing Mondays and Teaser Tuesdays along with a few others. Fridays are dedicated to “finds”: books you’ve heard about or discovered during the week. I wandered into my Books A Million [...]
As of today, I have either read or listened to six books: 1. The Cart Before the Corpse by Carolyn McSparren 2. Scandalmonger by William Safire 3. The Mosaic Crimes by Giulio Leoni 4. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk 5. Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone 6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar [...]
Since I’m not going to finish another book between now and midnight tomorrow, I can report my book count for 2009: 51. That includes both text and audio. The first book I recorded in LibraryThing was A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris. And the last was Why We Believe What We Believe by Andrew Newberg. [...]
For the first time in a very long time, I went on a road trip and came home with fewer books. I visited my parents and read and then returned two books to my mother: The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman and Knit Two by Kate Jacobs. The former was a sometimes heart-wrenching, yet somehow [...]