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Spider and egg sac 2008-06-25 07:48:00 If it looked like this on Monday evening and by Tuesday evening mom had put the leaf above into service as a low roof, how long before the baby spiders hatch? Read more:Spider
Entertainment Weekly's New Classics List 2008-06-25 05:13:00 We had 13 voters at our precinct yesterday. Thirteen. We got there at 5:45 am to set up and then didn't have a single voter until a couple minutes before noon.Ah, well. That gave us time to learn the new equipment a little better. It is possible to declare a voter deceased and then transfer him to another precinct. Not that we would actually do that or anything.I've bolded the titles read from the Read more:Entertainment
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Read-A-Thon fast approaching 2008-06-23 17:57:00 Not that I've informed the family yet, but I intend to participate in Dewey's 24-Hour Read-a-Thon this weekend.I will probably get in lots of warm-up practice tomorrow since North Carolina is having a primary run-off for commissioner of labor--whoever wins gets to run in the fall against the woman with the rhyming name whose picture is displayed in every elevator in the state. No one is predicting
Victor Hugo says. . . 2008-06-23 07:24:00 Here we withhold all theories of our own, we are merely the narrator; we place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view and merely reproduce his impressions.Hahahahahaha. Read more:Victor
No title 2008-07-20 06:14:00 Last day to watch Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog for free.
No title 2008-07-19 18:55:00 I am convinced that in real life suicide can't be the backdrop, dwarfed by something else. It is the foreground: itself inevitably the thing that changes people's lives. There is no other plot, and no resolution. And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.~~~In one sense, I knew exactly why my father had done it.
To everything there is a season 2008-07-18 07:13:00 and now is the season of turning the just-hung shelves over to Ellie and Claudius for entertainment purposes.
This week's library haul. . . 2008-07-16 17:44:00 In which I throw all restraint to the wind. Good thing most of these are from the university library so that I don't have to fret over overdue fees.Ernst Junger. The Glass Bees. This is an addition to the 2008 1001 books list.Gerard Donovan. Julius Winsome. I like the Marcus Aurelius quotation used as an epigrah in this one: Those who live the longest and those who die the soonest lose the same th
Ella's Comfort Zone Meme (illustrated by Ella) & Six Things 2008-07-15 08:16:00 The incomparable Ella created this meme.What kind of a book are you most comfortable reading? Contemporary literary fiction. Short stories. I-survived-my-crazy-family memoirs.What kind of a book do you love to hate? Anything that's supposed to inspire me or improve me in any fashion.What was the last book you surprised yourself by liking? Hmm. I expect to like everything I read; otherwise, why bot Read more:Comfort Zone
You can't tell what they're going to do 2008-07-11 18:42:00 It's not often that a review copy winds up in my mailbox right after I've finished a current read; my life is never that neat. Beth Gutcheon's Good-bye and Amen did, though. I read twenty pages and set it aside-not because I wasn't enjoying it, but so that I could see if the library had a copy of Leeway Cottage, Gutcheon's previous book about the Moss family (the Mosses are reminding me of Salinge
Progress report 2008-07-10 05:25:00 Genaddy Pugachevsky engraving from the Spartanburg, SC, People Reading exhibit ~~~I've been intending to do a mid-year progress report
for more than a week, but alas, there have been distractions aplenty, most recently Lin Enger's Hamlet-inspired Undiscovered Country. I downloaded the first chapter onto the Kindle yesterday thinking that would probably be enough to satisfy me until the book showed Read more:Progress report
No title 2008-07-08 11:13:00 A taste for serious fiction is rare in the American male these days, but Obama has it. According to several friends, he even tried his hand at writing short stories during those early years in Chicago, and he recalls priggishly scolding his half sister, Maya, while she was visiting him in New York, because she chose to watch TV instead of reading some novels he'd given her. Among the authors he fa
Pleasure can be renewed 2008-07-07 13:21:00 Last summer, I reread Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin), drawn deep into his picture of the political life of those old Italian city states, comical and personal, arbitrary, everything on a human scale. It was years since I'd read the novel; I had just about remembered Waterloo, the prison and the duchess in love with her young nephew in her middle age, but most of the story that woun
No title 2008-08-05 06:43:00 How many people have bought a Kindle? According to this article, 240,000 reading devices have been shipped. And there's speculation a new Kindle next year will target the textbook market.
A High Wind in Jamaica 2008-08-04 08:32:00 To prolong the pleasure of Richard Hughes' A High Wind in Jamaica which I was speeding though yesterday at a great clip, I paused to track down the Rebecca West review from which the description A hot draught of mad, primal fantasy and poetry on my copy's back cover was taken. And when my seach failed to uncover the source I decided that if I could wish any book into existence it would be a collec
Life won't actually do 2008-08-03 21:46:00 A story is always on the move, and from the author's point of view there is nothing natural about it. Constant readers become writers at the point in life when they acquire a fascination with a process of falsification: with imposing shape while simulating the evolution of character and event, making determinations while fostering an illusion that in the next chapter anything might happen. A novel
Widget fidgets 2008-08-01 09:30:00 I added a "Currently Reading" widget to the blog a few days ago. The widget is still in its beta stage and I find its quirks interesting.At first it appeared to work more reliably with Firefox than with Internet Explorer. Now it doesn't work with either when viewing the blog's main page, but shows up if you view an individual post.Weird.
Endings 2008-07-31 07:08:00 What are your favourite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its last sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the last line?If I'm browsing, I've been known to read the final line or paragraph of a novel in making a decision. If the ending tells me all that's come before, back on the shelf it goes. If the e
Warm novels and cold novels 2008-07-29 05:42:00 Except for my dog I lived on my own, for I had never married, though I think I came near once, and so even the silences here were mine. It was a place built around silences: my father was a reader of books and spreading along the walls from the wood stove stretched the long bookcases from the living room and on to the kitchen at the back and right and left to both bedrooms, four shelves high, hold
Lillian Gary Taylor 2008-07-28 13:29:00 The University of Virginia Library has digitized the memoirs and the reading journals of Lillian Gary Taylor
, who died in 1961 at the age of 96. The journals, 18 volumes altogether, provide a record of best-selling American fiction from 1787 to 1947. Through these journals, Lillian documents reading trends in her lifetime as well as in the Early Republic. For each book, she would meticulously han
No title 2008-07-28 10:26:00 Jayne's kitteh. Bunkmate to Vera.
No title 2008-07-27 07:53:00 Literacy specialists are just beginning to investigate how reading on the Internet affects reading skills. A recent study of more than 700 low-income, mostly Hispanic and black sixth through 10th graders in Detroit found that those students read more on the Web than in any other medium, though they also read books. The only kind of reading that related to higher academic performance was frequ
No title 2008-07-26 18:58:00 From off the table beside his bed, I picked up Tristram Shandy and read for an hour. We were both amused. The book is better read aloud than to oneself. "I am partial to Sterne," said the Colonel, "and regret that I came to him so late in life. In fact, when I was young, if I had read more of Sterne and less of Voltaire I might have realized that there was room enough on this earth for both Hamilt
Saturday morning hodgepodge 2008-07-26 09:03:00 Views of JupiterChristian, the London lionHow the mind worksJon Carrol cat column Read more:Saturday
Haven Kimmel 2008-07-25 11:30:00 John's been holding out on me.HavenKimmel
has a blog.Go there. Read her deadly views on Jesse Helms, learn of her upbringing in a polygamous cult, her lifelong Amish Quakerness (or something like that), the real reason Barack Obama did so well in Durham's primary, and just howclose of a relation that taxidermied monkey happens to be.And be aware that Iodine is now shipping from Amazon.
No title 2008-07-25 08:33:00 Tips for overcoming reader's block (not that I think anyone here really needs them).
Beginnings 2008-07-24 06:54:00 Suggested by: NithinHere’s another idea about memorable first lines from books.What are your favourite first sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its first sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the first line?I'm glad this prompt says sentences because however would I choose just one? I actually bought a book
Libraries 2008-08-21 05:58:00 Inspired by BookspleaseWhether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … What is your earliest memory of a library? Who took you? Do you have you any funny/odd memories of the library? My earliest memory of a li Read more:Libraries
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