Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Sitting at Cracker Barrel with Fuzzy yesterday morning, each of us reading, I watched him eat bacon, and thought, “the bacon I made with the microwave bacon cooker was better than this.” A few months ago, I received a totally enclosed microwave bacon cooker, and even though we don’t eat bacon all that often, I [...]
I often find that if I’m really into a book, I come away from my reading time feeling disoriented if the weather or the mood doesn’t fit with whatever I just read. Right now, for example, I’m halfway through Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Scion, the fourth in the Kushiel series, and there’s been some mention of [...]
Dreamland Brent Spiner, Maude Maggart Get it from Amazon >> I’ve always been a fan of audio dramas, and have fond memories of rainy winter Sunday evenings, when my mother would make soup or stew, and she, Ira, and I would sit around the kitchen table and listen raptly to the radio plays that were [...]
While I’m on the subject of shopping for bookish things, instead of reading books, I should add that we’ve pretty much shelved the plan to make the library into a library, and are now shopping for bookshelves that will work in other rooms, which has become an important issue, since I hired a cleaning lady [...]
If only time spent book shopping was as healthy for the body as time spent working out on one of those ellipticals that are so trendy, I would be stick-thin and incredibly strong. I did get a bit of a workout carrying a bag of clothing and a stack of books with me as I [...]
Entry cross-posted from my main blog, MissMeliss: Escribition. …or at least links to them As I posted, I’ve become more active in my favorite e-zine All Things Girl, and they’ve given me the title of Sr. Editor. The mid-issue update will go live on April 1st (no, really) but in the meantime I’ve got some [...]
Colleen’s book, The Rest Falls Away is in a poll / contest / thing at SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com, and the voting window only lasts til noon. Pop over and lend her your support!
Hearing a couple of golfers mention Cobra golf gear in Starbucks the other day, made me think about the way sports are depicted in fiction. You don’t see a lot of novels where there’s a dead body draped over the front of a Zamboni, or where love affairs take place in the SkyBox of a [...]
Arthur C. Clarke, aged 90, died this morning at his home in Sri Lanka, and while I can’t say I was a total fan of all his work, how can you not mourn the passing of the man who said that “Any technology that is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic” ? The New York [...]
Last night, in the week hours, I received a note from Borders informing me that a local Waldenbooks was closing and that everything within (except magazines, electronics, and gift cards) would be discounted 40% on Saturday the 22nd. Rather than choosing to be sad over a bookstore closing (it’s doing so because a big B&N [...]
