One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
….the semester finds me buried under books with no time for blogging. If I showed you my to-do list, you would sincerely pity me.
I have much to write about but seriously no time. I am supposed to be preparing a presentation on Alexander Barclay’s The Shyppe of Fooles at this very moment.
I will start writing [...]
Yes. I finally watched the movie. Jared and I went and enjoyed an evening with our good friends David (Tirian, creator of NarniaWeb) and MB. All our enjoyment of the evening came from good times with friends (and amazing garlic toast) and none of it came from watching the pathetic, pathetic movie.
I cannot detail my [...]
“Behind every Neil Gaiman novel is a better Gene Wolfe novel. Everything I have read of his is great. Cerebral, subtle, linguistic gymnastics. The covers of the books are deceiving.” - Brent Towell
I’ve been reading N.D. Wilson’s writing, ever since he first started getting it published. I read his early short stories and poems in Credenda Agenda. I’ve also recommended his work before but having just finished the concluding volume of his 100 Cupboards trilogy (100 Cupboards, Dandelion Fire, The Chestnut King), I have much more to say.
Genius [...]
Yes, it is school time again, and I am so busy with classes, homework, and teaching that I haven’t posted here in three weeks. I’m loving my work though, and am happy to be back in the thick of things again. I got so bored over the break that I scrubbed our toaster oven, inside [...]
So ya’all know I like to read. If you’ve thought about it, you probably guessed that I liked to read as a child. 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. One of the [...]
My boys and I have been suffering from severe winter colds. Jared is teetering on the brink: sure to come down with one tonight or tomorrow. We don’t often get sick and for that I’m grateful. This is such a waste of time. 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. I enjoy Heather Armstrong’s rants and some of the discussions over there are quite interesting. Today someone posted a question asking if anyone waited for sex until marriage. The typical response was along the lines of “no way”, “would you buy a car without test-driving [...]
I know I do. 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.
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One of my sweetest friends is the sort to write you an extended thank you note, on a handmade card, closed with sealing wax, [...]
If you are on Facebook you may have noticed the women posting colors as their status updates yesterday. 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.” Now, in addition to the ambiguous wording which seems to be encouraging [...]