In a new year resolutionish daze I started making a list of all the books I’ve finished, but I don’t know where it’s gotten to. I was curious about how many I actually read in a year, considering that I go through an average of six or seven titles a month for review, and I [...]
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Oh, hi.
January 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · books, cross stitch, knitting, projects, reviews
First, a big hearty cheers to anyone venturing over here from the Five O’Clock Cocktail blog, where I have a post today. *clink* Second, hi! I’m here. Been letting the blog lie fallow for a little bit in the hopes that it will eventually yield . . . you know, I’m not a farmer. Do [...]
Tags:antique patterns·cables·collins·cross stitch·knitting·vintage patterns
Books and stuff
December 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · books
I had half a mind to let today slink away without posting. I’d feel guilty about it; this resolution to post every week day would get added to the extremely long list of unfinished, petered-out resolutions, projects, and things of a general nature; which would then pad the case against my being a Person of [...]
Tags:Dickens·eliot·the victorians
Reading for pleasure
December 7th, 2010 · No Comments · books, writing
Read this book: Our Tragic Universe, by Scarlett Thomas. I’d read a review several months ago that made the book sound like exactly the sort of thing I like reading, so the next time I was at my local bookstore — you have no idea how much I love being able to say “my local [...]
On Influential Authors
November 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · books, flashbacks
I’ve been inspired by that Facebook meme (oh, and all your sources of inspiration are highbrow gems?) (OK, I honestly don’t know where that attitude is coming from, but I seem to have loads of it today and it has to come out somewhere, and neither the book reviews nor my NaNo writing is the [...]
Tags:15 authors·A Wrinkle in Time·facebook·Little Bear·Madeleine L'Engle
All the things I haven’t done
October 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments · books, reviews, writing
There will be no Mad Men recap today. I spent the entire day writing, by which I mean I spent most of the day trying to talk myself out of a fog of self-doubt, about an hour and a half on various websites, and about an hour or so total playing Drop7 in the hopes [...]
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(More) words I don’t want to see in erotica
August 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · books, reviews, writing
I wanted to have something new here just in case anyone reading over at Pens Fatales stopped by — not that I expect it, but I I hope a few people do, because new readers are always welcome (not that old readers aren’t, but you know what I mean) — but for the potential people [...]
So ready for fall
August 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · books, writing
Summer is almost over. Can I get an AMEN? What a clunker. There were bright spots, to be sure, with more to come before Labor Day, but I am more than ready to put this season to bed. Bring on autumn, with its sweater weather and pretty colors and delicious smells and harvests. Yeah, OK, [...]
About Two Books: (Murder at) Mansfield Park
August 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · books, reviews
As some of you know, I’ve been reviewing books for RT Book Reviews for a little over a year, and specifically mysteries and thrillers for the past seven or so months. Because I live close to the RT office, I’ve been known to stroll over to pick over the selections and take back a bundle [...]
Tags:jane austen·lynn shepherd·mansfield park·murder at mansfield park
In which I start talking about mysteries but wind up elsewhere
June 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · books, projects, writing
I went to a marvelous place on Thursday night called the Mysterious Bookshop. Mysterious indeed. Not only is it a speciality bookstore dealing only in mysteries, thrillers, crime and espionage novels (as well as rare and out-of-print editions), but I had no idea it existed, despite its being around for almost 30 years. It used [...]
Tags:detective fiction·Dickens·Jonathan Lethem·Motherless Brooklyn·mysteries·needlepoint·Sherlock Holmes·this is a weird ass set of categories