List 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes. Don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be great works, or even your favorites. Just the ones that have touched you ( Read more... )

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Since we're celebrating old home week, here's one of those cute little memes that used to go around here. This was on Facebook earlier this week.

Grab the nearest book to you. Turn to page 52. Post the fifth sentence as your status.

"Many who called were genuinely happy for us, but a number of the West Coast elite clearly wanted ( Read more... )

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Here's a delayed eulogy to one of the people who was of a great significance in our life.
I just found out one of my most loved literary figures passed away last year. I didn't get the news then as it was during the 'black out time' but a search for new anthologies gave me the sad news. I love anthologies, and I've read hundreds of ( Read more... )

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Since it's a slow news day, here's some of the most impressionable one liners that have come across our desk this week. Most of the time they make their way here through the Quotations page iGoogle Gadget and occasionally from other sources. The final one here is from a terrific book that we're reading that will soon make its way to ( Read more... )

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Oh goodness dear flarking Lord it's May. May Day May Day! Oh wait that passed. Mercifully and without fanfare. I wouldn't know I was workin. :)

The past few months have been busy, and chocked full of mostly good things. Family milestones are Matthew's third birthday, which is tomorrow but being celebrated all weekend. I got him a ( Read more... )

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One of the things that kept us from becoming a complete wreck during the last year came from an unexpected source. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Now I didn't have the actual bathroom books (because oddly enough, I don't read in the bathroom), I had something better. The Audio versions. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader - The Audio, and ( Read more... )

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I copped the name of this post from a book I'm currently reading, which also greatly explains my state of mind as of late. Arisia was an interesting experience. It seemed to blend together elements of events that I have been to before, but never really thought of in the same context. I have had the event on my radar for a number of ( Read more... )