Oh, I almost forgot - on the recommendation of many of you, I bought a book for Leah to enjoy over the Passover vacation: Ender's Game. She was entranced. After I finish my current book, I'll read it.

Slept for three and one-third hours this afternoon. I think yesterday got to me.

Spent tonight giggling at YouTube stuff. Needed a good giggle, because now that I'm finished with Everything Is Illuminated, I'm reading Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near-Destruction of a Great American City. The incompetence of FEMA and the play of ( Read more... )

A day in the glamorous life of a best-selling writer - from Janet Evanovich (nope, haven't read her stuff)

Just go right here!

I'm trying to start Everything Is Illuminated, but I just found out that I have to read a 128-page Campaign Guide for Congressional Candidates and Committees so that I can advise a client. Meh. Sounds like great bedtime ( Read more... )

...is Marley and Me: Life and Love With The World's Worst Dog by John Grogan. I'm crying, I'm laughing uncontrollably, and I'm thinking as I read this book that my Rudy is quite a good dog. He's the most mellow dog under the age of two that I have ever known. Sadly, he still occasionally confuses the far corner of our den as his berber-carpeted ( Read more... )

It's a lovely time here in West Haven, Connecticut. I finished Sharpe's Devil, the last of the series (another entry about that later!), and I have just started the first novel in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. The name of the book? You'll all recognize it-- Master and Commander! (The Russell Crowe/Paul Bettany movie is based on the ( Read more... )