why is your house so cold? can't you turn up the heating?
those books sound amazing. i haven't read anything since i got back from togo, though i'm probably going to join a new book club here to keep me on track.
I would crank up the thermostat even more but something about Hurricane Katrina damaging natural gas lines or something has made our energy bills outrageously high. But we also got exhaust vents put in both upstairs bathrooms which may be losing some of the heat that usually gets trapped upstairs. I don't know. I was going to put weather-proofing film on the windows and replace the weather stripping around the doors but I never did get to it. Next year I'll get right on that. Today is about twenty degrees warmer than yesterday and the house is quite comfortable. Stupid Iowa weather
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Gaaaaahhh!!! <--- wail of a person with too tall a TBR pile who keeps getting good recs
Sounds too perfect to miss out on, though.
Naps are good. Naps are necessary. Having that kind of cuddletime with kidlets is something they'll carry away (even unconsciously) their whole lives, I feel certain. So no guilt!
Oh, man, I hate to do that to you but those books are some of the best I've read in a long time! Perhaps you could boot some of the dry books on the list down to the bottom? Like, keep Brothers Karamazov, but Gulag Archipelago can wait until you're stranded on a desert island.
They sound like they were topflight, which is why Quicksilver is now on the pile. Dry books? I don't gather dry books, generally speaking. ;) There's the Tain that a_treitell induced me to finally get around to (by recommending a particularly able translator). There's Lois McMaster Bujold, of which I read her first fantasy, and beside the bed is the second in the series (which actually *is* proving a little dry and may go back to the library unfinished). I really need to pick up her Vorkosigan series, by all accounts. An anthology called New Magic that has a story by a friend. In the nonfiction arena, a dynamite book on depression The Noonday Demon that was rec'd over in aireon's journal and may be *the* most lucid book on the subject I have ever laid eyes on, and thoroughly readable. Shall I go on?
Of course, I'm wrong about no dry books. There's the management textbook for class. :P :P :P
those books sound amazing. i haven't read anything since i got back from togo, though i'm probably going to join a new book club here to keep me on track.
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Sounds too perfect to miss out on, though.
Naps are good. Naps are necessary. Having that kind of cuddletime with kidlets is something they'll carry away (even unconsciously) their whole lives, I feel certain. So no guilt!
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Of course, I'm wrong about no dry books. There's the management textbook for class. :P :P :P
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sounds like you need to do something to insulate the house. i hate being cold inside
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