Posted in Giveaways, book love on May 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
It’s a typical summer day in southwest Florida, the sun playing keep away from those dark thunderclouds which roll overheard every so often. You learn never to leave the house unless you’re prepared for a deluge, because one can happen at any moment!
To escape the threat of being soaked, I’ve opted to stay in today, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | 14 Comments »
It’s been a scrambling sort of day, as it always is when one is preparing to leave town for a few days. In the midst of making sure the mail was stopped and the neighbors notified, in finishing up all the loose ends at the office, doing the last bits of laundry and sweeping up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In this post, I mentioned my attraction to reading memoirs. I especially enjoy memoirs of other writers, but I’ll also read about dysfunctional families, heroic teachers, struggling actors, women in other cultures…just about anything except stories of people and their pets (I’m way too tenderhearted when it comes to animal tales).
Fortunately (or unfortunately for my [...]
Posted in Sunday Salon on May 25, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Dear friends, I’ve been dawdling today- going for a leisurely walk in the park, relaxing in my easy chair with books and coffee, enjoying a late breakfast al fresco (don’t you love eating outdoors? it’s one of my favorite things to do!) But I have been reading this week - quite a lot, as a matter of [...]
Posted in The Novella Challenge on May 25, 2008 | 13 Comments »
“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed by doing nothing.”
~On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
For me, this is the penultimate sentence of this novella, a deeply affecting character study of a young English couple and the events that transpire during their wedding night on Chesil Beach in 1962. Edward and Florence come [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 15 Comments »
This week’s Booking Through Thursday asks:
Books and films both tell stories, but what we want from a book can be different from what we want from a movie. Is this true for you? If so, what’s the difference between a book and a movie?
The ravenous reader is not a movie fan. Given the choice of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | 14 Comments »
As often happens on Sunday, the day has nearly vanished and I’m wondering where on earth the time has gone. Of course, there was church - and today I played with the handbell choir for the last time before summer break, which meant (of course) that we must arrive quite early to set up everything and [...]
Posted in book love on May 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »
ahhh…silence.
after ninety minutes in the Saab dealer service department “customer lounge,” i’m deliriously thankful to be home where the only sound is the clicking of my keyboard.
there were four other people in this small waiting room, three women about my age, and two gentlemen. the room itself was quite small as these places go - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I enjoy reading personal essays, diaries, and memoirs, particularly when penned by authors with whom I’m familiar in other genres, such a fiction or poetry. It gives me additional insights into their personalities, into what might have informed their writing (although I know the literary critics say biography shouldn’t be taken into account when analyzing a writer’s work). [...]
Posted in Weekly Geeks, book love on May 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Although my mother wasn’t much of a reader, she honored my lifelong passion for the printed word, and took great pride in the early manifestations of my bookishness. I was never denied a book, and whether it was obtained from the library or local department store, books were the things I most coveted throughout my childhood (along [...]
