One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
More Didion made for dense, slow reading! Despite a concentrated effort I only managed to get about 200 pages in. The only thing is, this book is actually a collection of seven books! Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, Miami, After Henry, Political Fictions and Where I Was From. UnfortunatelyI didn’t know that it [...]
I started Joan Didion’s We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live and so far so good. A lot of the pieces are about sex, drugs and rock and roll but then so were the sixties… Her writing is clear and thoughtful but now I’m venturing in to some of the more introspective essays and [...]
Robinson Crusoe was great fun. A quick and relaxing read that reminded me of a friend who used to ask “desert island” questions. Like would you rather have a knife or a rope if you were stranded on a desert island? If you’re stranded with a member of the opposite sex, how long before you [...]
Sixty-five days and thirty-nine books. Scary… I am working on staying up later to get more reading in. Now I drink a pot of coffee every morning and half a pot every night. So far it has meant an extra few hundred pages. I finished Sons and Lovers and I just want to say thank [...]
Umm…so yeah…I’ve been a bit absent from my “daily” blog. I’m busy (of course) and have felt burned out by the end of the day. So this is what I’ve been up to for the two days I was missing… I finished Raymond Chandler’s Collected Stories. Yay! Hurray! Celebrate! OK…it really wasn’t all that bad [...]
I’m seriously low on blogging energy. I haven’t been this far down yet this year and the books I’m reading aren’t helping. I’m still slogging through Raymond Chandler. Having read seven of his novels already this year, I’m just done. I made Amish Friendship Bread again, dried apples and did four frozen pie fillings…I’m really [...]
Some days I just don’t feel like I have a blog post in me. Today we are going to rely on the internet to provide the necessary diversion. Look at what doing everything Oprah says will get you. Humans are amazing. How to be polite. Budgetary minded women. The best of the social networks. I’m [...]
OK, Saturday is apple day. We will start processing millions of apples at 2pm. Come with cinnamon and sugar and gallon ziploc bags if you want pies, with jars or tubs if you want applesauce and with more jars or pitchers if you want juice (it’s really yummy juice). Of course if you just like [...]
I had a busy day of housework, baking and errands and did manage to finish Alice Munro’s Carried Away. Does anyone know if her short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” was ever turned into a movie? I was describing the plot to Jared and he thought it was one. Because I’m drowning in [...]
Well, I’m back and I survived. Two whole days with no husband or children. I read 1325 pages which was exactly Missy’s guess! Congrats and please let me know which book you would like! The Hermitage was wonderful in many ways and often unexpected. There were many, many bugs. There was essentially no color. All [...]