The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
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 [...]
Dorothy Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker is brilliant and, as far as I know, unprecedented. To look at and try to concieve of the character of God by examining the nature of the artist provides not only startling insight but great motivation to work harder and better. Sayers deftly handles such essentially complex ideas [...]
Yesterday was a tiring and stressful day. Alex had to go to the doctor’s office to get his eyes checked out. He’s been having one cross in a bit and we got worried and made an appointment. Turns out we were right to do so. He has Estropic Strabismus with resultant Amblyopia. His particular case [...]
Friday was a busy and strange day. We spent the morning and early afternoon out at Jared’s shop. We have talked about doing this a couple of times but the circumstances are never just right. Of course most of the time the shop is full of busy men working on building shutters and I’m leary [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday was a tough day for reading. The boys took a decent nap but Jared had to work late so the afternoon was long and turned into a long evening. I don’t think that Alex and Luc knew that Jared was late but there moods sure took a turn for the worse around 5 or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I finished Midnight’s Children and started Aesop’s Fables. Jared went out last night to visit with an old friend so I should have been super productive all evening (after the boys went to bed of course). Instead I read a little, surfed the internet, and then fell asleep. For some reason I have a really [...]
I’m still working my way through The House of Spirits and find the book to be quite enjoyable. The narrative voice keeps playing games with me and I’m pretty easy to play games on. I tend to trust my narrator implicitly and when I was in early lit classes I found the concept of the [...]