I will first quickly mention that vacation day 1 was taken up with the epic task of cleaning up my desk. This somehow turned into the epic task to clean up my crap in the bathroom cabinet, the pile of badness on my bureau, and the stuff on my desk. I’ve completed the bathroom and […]
Read for the TBR Reading Challenge. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the story of Henry DeTamble, a man suffering from chrono-displacement, which means that he travels back and forth along the length of his life, never knowing where/when he’ll end up, and his wife Clare, who plods along the linear path of time. This was
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The good news is, the garden is coming along. The phlox, liatris and echinacea are all blooming, and we’ve gotten a decent amount of rain, so everything is looking pretty lush. The bad news is, we’ve gotten a decent amount of rain, so the phlox, liatris and echinacea have all come in sideways, due to
Slight change in socks I’m making for L. I switched over to the River Rapids sock pattern, since I’m working with a more or less sport weight yarn, and the Waving Lace pattern was not doing it with the yarn I’m using. It’s a pretty simple, cool looking pattern, and I’m definitely enjoying it. It’s
Read for the YA 2008 and Mythopoeic Reading Challenges. Inkheart is an absolutely charming story, definitely one of the better YA books I’ve recently read. Being an avid reader, I have on occasion wished that the story that I was reading could come alive, but this story is great cautionary tale of why that might
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This week’s question seemed fairly apropos, because my vacation is next week, and I’ve actually been pondering what that will mean for my summer book buying: Do you buy books while on vacation/holiday? Do you have favorite bookstores that you only get to visit while away on a trip? What/Where are they? Books are pretty
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The Embossed Leaves socks are done! Finally! Yes, the second one came out slightly smaller, even though I did it on larger needles, and even compared it side by side with the first one as I was going along, so not sure exactly how that happened. However, my socks tend to slouch enough that it
So I’m pretty massively behind on my Google Reader feeds, and finally found some time to take a look today, and boy was I glad I did. The Hidden Side of a Leaf had a post about Paperspine, which is more or less the Netflix for paperbacks. I tried valiantly for about five minutes to
Read for the Mythopeoic Awards and TBR 2008 Reading Challenges. Having recently read Anansi Boys, and having been forewarned that while the two books are set in the same world (and at least one overlapping character), I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with American Gods. I did know that Gaiman’s never done me wrong
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This little masterpiece was an amalgam of a number of different Asian-inspired noodle salads I’ve come across in my travels, and basically came out like a deconstructed spring roll, with chicken. I poached the chicken with some peppercorns, salt and bay in the water, and it came out as some of the moistest, most flavorful