The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I’m a bit tired and not really ready for the week to start. The weekend went by too fast… What do you do with a girl who only read sixty pages yesterday? Force her to read more Kahlil Gibran today, I guess. We worked on winterizing our yard yesterday. Mostly just picking up the damp [...]
We joined Jared out at his shop today. Thanksgiving was a long tiring day because Luc was really fussy out at my in-laws. For some reason he wouldn’t settle down and it made it hard to relax and enjoy the holiday. So we decided to try spending the day at the shop and see if [...]
I decided that I needed to get started on Rabbit Angstrom just so the longest book on my list was out of the way. One day and one seventh of my way in, I’m not thrilled but not horrified. I enjoyed Updike’s Henry Bech and found the stories interesting and varied. So far Angstrom intriguingly [...]
Finished To the Lighthouse. Started The Dain Curse, The Glass Key and Selected Stories by Dashiell Hammet and finished the stories. I feel as though I’m making progress and that is good. Still not a Virginia Woolf fan. The woman had style but really, what did she say that was important? Meaningful? Not to dismiss [...]
Both Election Day and Joan Didion’s Politcal Fictions are over. Hurray! I do quite seriously recommend the Didion book though. Very clever, very insightful and quite thoughtful. However, I am very happy to be over the politics ‘though pleased at the way the election and my reading coincided. Home hasn’t been much fun lately…kids are [...]
So we had spent the entire day inside. Cooped up, avoiding the cold and damp. Finally we were just too restless, so I dressed the boys up nice and warm, got into jeans and shoes and headed out to the front yard to rake leaves. And the clouds just opened up. We had been outside [...]
Of course Sunday was a busy day as it usually is. This week I did all my weekly baking Sunday afternoon. This meant zucchini bread, amish friendship bread and a pot of minestrone soup, not to mention dinner, all going at once. That means that Monday will be fairly laid back but because of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wow. I must have gotten very uninteresting lately because no one has commented for three days… I finished Pale Fire today and found it highly amusing. Satirical literary criticism…and an imaginary Eastern European country…and an imaginary deposed king and his imaginary assasain. Fun stuff. Unfortunately I should have read twice as much in the last [...]