The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I’ve no idea if I have shared this recipe on here before, but I made it again last week and it was so yummy I thought y’all might enjoy it. Shepherd’s Pie Start by simmering about 3 pounds of red potatoes (skins on) in a large pot of water. Brown one pound of ground beef [...]
Poetry. Â It’s really never been me. Â Me, buried in books since I was five, has never been a poetry person. Â I have always skipped over it when it is at the head of a chapter, rarely owned a whole book of it, and didn’t really read the ones I owned. Â When I have taken the [...]
…decide how to spend the money I’ve been earning by babysitting. It’s not a lot, nor will it be, but I am in a bit of a quandary. Here are my options as I see them: Books. (Duh.) But what books? Just fun ones I’ve wanted but haven’t been able to justify (like P.G. Wodehouse or [...]
I read a book that wasn’t for school. Â Look at me, being all self-indulgent and decadent right in the middle of the semester! Castleview by Gene Wolfe was entertaining, and interesting. Â I certainly couldn’t wait to pick it up again each time I had to put it down. Â Wolfe can sustain interest in a convoluted [...]
I am now babysitting. Â Before this semester I had never done that before. I do have two much younger siblings, who I had watched occasionally, but I had never cared for someone else’s child. Â And with my brother and sister I did not watch them until they were older (over 2 I think) and even [...]
When I launched my Kickstarter project ten days ago, I was nervous and hopeful. Â I have wanted to get started on this database of Lewis’s Library for a very long time. Â I think that this work is interesting, important, and useful and would really like to spend my time and energy on it. But… I’m [...]
So when I started the Kickstarter project that I blogged about below, I went through quite a process of evaluating how much money I would need to make the C.S. Lewis Library website happen. Â I thought about technology costs, the time investment, the travel expenses, etc. I failed to account for one very large budget [...]
I have talked a little bit about the project cataloging C.S. Lewis’s personal library and reading habits that I want to start. Â Today I am taking one of the early steps toward accomplishing that project by attempting to crowd-source the funding for it’s initial phase. Kickstarter is a website designed to do just that for [...]
It’s sad, because I really like nifty design-y stuff, but whenever I see a designer’s blogpost about 25 or 50 cool bookshelf designs, I simply roll my eyes. Â If I do bother to look at the pictures and read the post I roll them even harder. Â Inevitably all but one or two of the designs [...]
It has been awhile since I reviewed any books here and so I am now taking a moment to update everyone. Â Over the summer I was both omnivorous and voracious when it came to books. Â I started the summer with The Making of the Atomic Bomb and finished it with The Pastor as Minor Poet [...]