I had all intentions of going to bed early last night. Well, I did go to bed early but not sleep. I made the mistake of taking How To Knit a Love Song by Rachel Herron. In case you didn't guess, I couldn't put it down and read it until I was done. Oops. It was a nice book though. I liked that there was romantic conflict but there wasn't so much ( Read more... )

Borrowed from notonelessWhat we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and ( Read more... )

When I was 9 years old my family took a vacation on Martha's Vineyard. It was a very exciting trip because I was convinced that we were going to see Carly Simon since she had a house nearby. (I was a big Carly Simon fan as a child.) We didn't see Carly Simon, instead my brother and I tried fishing with caterpillars (yuck) rode our bikes until my ( Read more... )

I took the audiobook of Sideways out of the library. On my walk this evening disc 7 concluded and instead of hearing, "Sideways, by Rex Pickett, disc 8" I hear some hard rock. I fast-forwarded a bit to see if the book came after. Nope. Check the next song, Pearl Jam. I have no idea what this CD is. It is labelled as disc 8 of Sideways! There are ( Read more... )

I finished Freakonomics last night. The Guardian Digested Read pretty much sums it up.

A couple of nights ago I watched Grave of the Fireflies. I had seen that Roger Ebert listed it as one of his great movies. His review gives away quite a bit of the plot, which I could tell when I read it, so I didn't read it too closely. I probably should have, ( Read more... )