One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
So I am back from a week-long camping trip/family reunion on Tahoe’s North Shore with the entirety of Jared’s Dad’s family. Theoretically I like camping. I even backpack (usually with a ridiculous number of books in my pack). However, I have a hard time understanding how anyone can regard camping (bracketed by two 9 hour [...]
I read Moby Dick all the way through for the first time last year and was glad to have finally set myself to enjoy Melville’s work. It takes a little more discipline than most novels or adventure stories but is well worth it!
A few weeks ago, I decided to pick up Typee which I own [...]
For those of you who read here and don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I just wanted to let you know that Alex’s eye surgery went well yesterday. It was a long and difficult day but already today Alex is feeling just fine and seems to be out of pain. We won’t know about [...]
I recently read PG Wodehouse’s The Clicking of Cuthbert which was great fun. Of course anything by Wodehouse cheers the soul and I really needed cheering this last week.
Jared was out of town for seven days and six nights. It was awful. That’s the longest we’ve ever been apart and aside from missing his help [...]
…about what kind of mother I am.
Yes. Those are my babies. In their pajamas. Eating a tub of leftover brownies for breakfast. They are homemade if that helps.
Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of Jeeves and Wooster short stories and is a nice introduction to the pair. If you haven’t had the chance to meet these two or if your only knowledge of them is through the excellent, but necessarily inadequate, BBC production then this is a great way to get to [...]
This was my first re-read of the year. I love this book by C.S. Lewis. It is short but very, very rich. The moral knowledge packed into it’s 127 pages is astounding. I read it almost every year for a reminder of how not to let selfishness and pride shape my existence. Highly, highly recommended [...]
I intend to post as I finish books and/or when exciting life events occur.
I finished P.G. Wodehouse’s Joy in the Morning last night and, naturally, enjoyed it completely. Jeeves was at his inimitable best and dear Bertram got to pose as a burglar and a policeman. The perilous engagment was deftly avoided and all is [...]
So I spent all day yesterday working on potty-training Alex. We had almost zero success, went through six pairs of underwear, 17 rags and half a bottle of Windex. I think we’ll keep trying today, but it just sounds exhausting.
On a more literary note (not that Homer didn’t need to be potty-trained…) it seems that [...]
OK, Christmas was nuts. Fun but crazy. The boys loved all their presents, were a little overwhelmed and hyper and were as adorable as could be. Jared ran off with the camera again (naturally) so you all will have to wait a bit to enjoy the cuteness.
Kafka is almost done and I really want to [...]