I’ve spent a lot of time criticizing books lately. It’s nice to write about one that I liked. I just finished reading “Family Album” by Penelope Lively. Hell, I ended up finishing it because I couldn’t sleep, and now I’m paying for it, but oh well. It really is a simple book, showing how each …
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I Might Have More To Say About This If Only I Could Find The Words
I’ve just had one of those for God’s sake, kill me and get it over with moments. Maybe there’s a word to describe that feeling, and since I’m fortunate enough not to be a grade 5 student in California, perhaps I’ll try to look that word up when I’m done here. The Menifee Union school …
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A Short Book, Long Thoughts
When I was going to write this post, it was going to be a seething post about how horrible a book this was. Now, I’m a wee bit conflicted about how I feel. In fact, I pretty much take everything back. Not all, but a lot. The book was called Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth …
Random Thought Post time
I had some thoughts floating around in my head so thought I’d put them down. I don’t know if this is long enough to lock the VO keys for, but hey, it might surprise me. I’m dangerous when I get going. God, all this bullshit with Stephen Harper suspending parliament just so he can avoid …
The Long-Awaited, Long Holiday Post
I always write a post about the holidays. It’s just a matter of when. I’m crazy, and want to get through the easy stuff first before I sit down and crank out a giant epic. But it seems writing the holiday epic has become the thing I’ve done since Steve and Matt let me come …
A Few Notes From The Trip, Including What The Presents Were
I hope that’s a good picture, I had to go online to find one since nobody’s around to take one for me right now and I don’t trust myself to get one with the whole cover visible. Anyway, what I hope you’re looking at is the cover of the book my brother got me for …
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Kate, You’re Gonna Be Famous
I just saw on Kate’s blog that she got interviewed on CBC’s Mainstreet. How cool! She’s gonna go far! To listen to her interview, which is in Real Media, go here. If you have trouble with Real Media, let me know, I’ll see what I can do. I don’t know if Zamzar can convert ram …
What Balance?
Back a while ago, mom said she was reading a book that she thought I should read. It was called “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry. It was all about life in India and how rough it was. I decided what the heck, I’d give it a read. And oh what a depressing read it …
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Last Christmas, I got a gift certificate to the mall from a friend. I decided it might as well be spent on a good book from Chapters. I had no idea what book I wanted, so I walked in and asked for recommendations. My only hard and fast rule was that it be unabridged. If …
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My President Gets Angry, Sometimes…
Somebody is laughing while Barnes and Noble are crying. they walked into a Barnes and Noble store, saw a big display in the front window full of books by or about President Obama and thought a book about monkeys should be squished in among them. Yup, you guessed what happened. The angry emails came in …