The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
So ya’all know I like to read. Â If you’ve thought about it, you probably guessed that I liked to read as a child. Â Well, I liked to read so much when I was a kid that I would get in trouble for it: when I should have been doing something else mostly. Â One of the [...]
My boys and I have been suffering from severe winter colds. Â Jared is teetering on the brink: sure to come down with one tonight or tomorrow. Â We don’t often get sick and for that I’m grateful. Â This is such a waste of time. Â I haven’t felt up to reading much and haven’t gotten any work [...]
I very occasionally participate in the online community at Dooce.com. Â I enjoy Heather Armstrong’s rants and some of the discussions over there are quite interesting. Â Today someone posted a question asking if anyone waited for sex until marriage. Â The typical response was along the lines of “no way”, “would you buy a car without test-driving [...]
I know I do. Â I happen to have the most talented and amazing group of friends, and getting to be a part of the awesome things they do is such a privilege. . One of my sweetest friends is the sort to write you an extended thank you note, on a handmade card, closed with [...]
If you are on Facebook you may have noticed the women posting colors as their status updates yesterday. Â There was a little message going around, telling us all to post the color of our bra in order to “raise awareness for breast cancer.” Â Now, in addition to the ambiguous wording which seems to be encouraging [...]
I would love suggestions for books to read this year. Â I will have to be selective of course. Â I have two semesters of graduate school and a thesis to write in 2010, after all. Â Still, any books you think I might enjoy, please tell me about. Comment over on the “Reading in 2010” page.
I’m reading at a tremendous rate these days. Â Since school got out I’ve finished 9 books. Â I’ve written a little, though not as much as I’d like to have done. Â I’ve cooked a lot too; and hosted many parties. Â In two weeks I pulled out the table, ironed the cloth, and set the places for [...]
Yep Twilight. I attended a wonderful annual party yesterday, hosted by some of my favorite and most bookish friends. Â They believe New Years Day to be a useless holiday and so invented the annual white-elephant book exchange. Â We gather with our most awful books wrapped in leftover Christmas paper and do the white-elephant thing. Â And [...]
It’s nothing earth-shattering, but I enjoyed Samuel Shellabarger’s Tolbecken last night. Â Shellabarger wrote historical novels like Captain from Castille and I’ve enjoyed his books as pleasant distractions with fun plotlines and thoughtful treatment of historical ideas and events. Â Tolbecken is one of his better books (and they are all good stuff), and I found myself [...]