The hottest part of our long summer is still to come, the hot dry fire season. Since we've already got bad fires everywhere because of the intense drought (El Nino did bring rain up north, but nothing down here), I'm dreading what's to come.

And dreading the news, and trying to avoid the election gasifying, and so I thought it was time for ( Read more... )

Now that summer is here, I thought it a perfect time to talk about comfort reads.

Starting off the New Year with a riff about Hilary McKay and feel-good books.

Wishing everyone an excellent 2012.

rushthatspeaks has a nifty post about what makes a comfort read. Especially when a book that, at least first time through, was far from being any kind of a comfortable read. Her point about comfort reads cannot be first reads really struck me as true--but is it true for others?