Feh. On Friday, K was tired enough that she fell asleep at her desk in school. We figured possible growth spurt. Then on Monday she took a 4-hour nap on the sofa. Tuesday, she was ill and stayed at home where she mostly watched her iPad and napped, and ate the BRATY diet. Today, she was well enough to go back to school, and it was The Man's turn to ( Read more... )

I borrowed the audiobook of Gaudy Night from the library and listened to it on my iPhone. It was a little bit of a hassle to import the sound files from the Overdrive folder to iTunes and then sync with the phone, but the worst part was having to contend with the Apple Music app on my phone. Other sound-playing apps have controls like this:


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Recently viewed:

• "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows". Beautiful "sets", and I liked the slow-mo of bullets hitting trees when they're running through the woods. It was a nice way to convey the chaos and danger without resorting to shaky-cam. But personally, I prefer Aspergers Holmes to Action-Figure Holmes. The British show makes it exciting to ( Read more... )

Bellwether, by Connie Willis
Lighthearted novella, in the same sort of vein as To Say Nothing of the Dog, but with a contemporary setting. Lots of historical trivia about scientific discovery and fads. (The protagonist is a female sociology researcher whose specialty is fads.)

Lincoln's Dreams, by Connie Willis ( Read more... )

Been meaning to post for a while about some books I've been reading. Here goes:

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. This was a hard book to start reading, because I dreaded reading about the subject matter: human trafficking and prostitution, rape, women dying in childbirth ( Read more... )