Happy Canada Day! We just ate our Canada Day lunch: back-bacon on buns, roasted asparagus, corn on the cob, and lemon cake and fresh strawberries for dessert. And now I’m all happy and full and thinking back over the last month. I read approximately seven thousand books in June. Well, it was actually 26, but [...]
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Trip Notes (III and final)
Coming home from vacation is nicer when you come home to this (click to embiggen): Here’s the breakdown: Mooched: Letters to Karen, by Charlie W. Shedd Letters to Philip, by Charlie W. Shedd Priceless Weddings for under $5000, by Kathleen Kennedy Sent from Phenix & Phenix: Runaway, by Steve Simpson Castaway Kid, by R. B. [...]
Springtime on Mars Giveaway Winner
Hey, everyone, remember this contest? Well, it’s over. And there’s a winner. Carol Ezovski, you have won a copy of Springtime on Mars! I will be emailing you momentarily. To everyone else, thanks for participating, and better luck next time. And if you’d like some short stories to read — even though you can’t get [...]
May Books
M is for May, and May is for Modernism! At least in one case. May is also for Murder! And May, though it may not seem so on the surface, is for Short Fiction. Here are the books I read last month (with comments appended): The Princes of Ireland, by Edward Rutherfurd. This was a [...]
Six Things and Two Challenges
Egad, I’ve been tagged. First, here are some six things: Six Random Things About Myself: 1. You know how people can roll their tongues? I can do that. I can also roll my tongue upside-down (like an inverted ‘u’). What you have to do is brace the sides of your tongue against your bottom teeth, [...]
New Arrivals
I went on another bookstore outing today, this time to the excellent discount bookstore. I got three new books: 1) Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto. Her name is Banana. How cool is that? I have no idea if it’s her real name or a pseudonym, or a half-pseudonym… but still. Banana. (If you must know, I [...]
Weekly Geeks 3: Childhood Books
This week’s Weekly Geeks is supposed to be about childhood books, and I’ve been thinking about what to write since Saturday (but have not actually made it to posting until now). Partly this is because when I was thinking about it I mostly wasn’t in my bedroom, where most of the books I read as [...]
April Books
Well, kiddaroos, here are the things I read in April, with some brief commentary occasionally appended. As usual, an asterisk denotes a first-time read. *A Place of Hiding, by Elizabeth George. I do like Elizabeth George books. I’m not sure how we’ll they’ll hold up on re-reading, because they are mysteries and because I haven’t [...]