From Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies"...what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she's not beautiful. There's a certain set to the jaw and arch to the nose that might, with a following wind and in the right light, be called handsome by a good-natured liar. Also, there's a certain glint in her eye generally ( Read more... )

I decided to start with The Fasting Girl first. I mentioned it is about this girl who in 1865 took to her bed with strange symptoms for over a decade. Yeah, turns out it was for a lot longer than a decade. She stayed in bed until she died, some 50 years later. Holy. Crap. Now I'm very much curious to read this book ( Read more... )

People always post snippets from deep, intellectual adult novels. Well, I teach 2nd grade and my reading often consists of elementary school books. Doesn't mean they don't have anything to say. I'm reading my kids The Trumpet of the Swan which I've never read and I'm enjoying, I don't know about them. Anyway, here's my favorite bit so far. I ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening I stole two tall bookcases from one of our empty bedrooms and claimed them as my own. My stacks of books were out of hand and I couldn’t take it any longer. My babies needed a nice home that wasn’t the floor of my closet. I worked on transferring the favorite books to their new home. The rest went on the big shelf on the top ( Read more... )

You know what is one good way to make your day just awesome ( Read more... )