Cue the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun."


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Brighton Blogger has posted an LGBT Reading for 2011. All the details are here: http://bookafterbook.blogspot.com/2010/12/lgbt-reading-challenge-2011.html

Count me in!

I'm taking this challenge! I can get behind any challenge that lets me set my own goals and asks for reviews. I'm also all for a reading challenge that has as its goal "creating a more ( Read more... )

Today was not the day to sit down at the desk and work without interruptions, so didn't even try. Instead, because it was a gorgeous sunny day, I

hung out 3 loads of laundry.

caught up on reading blogs.

downloaded handouts from the New England SCBWI Conference (only available to those who attended, which is a good idea).

thought about the books I'm ( Read more... )

Unwind, by Neil Shusterman. Second place went to Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson and third to Sold by Patricia McCormick.

The real winners, though, are the high school students who read and vote. (To be eligible to vote they must have read 3 of the 15 books on the year's list.) Rutland High School had 114 students vote! Yay Rutland!

I've been on the ( Read more... )

1. The muse is still with me, bless him. I'm on page 49 of the non-fiction wip now. That means I added almost five pages today. Best of all, I left it in a spot where I know what I'm going to say next.

2. Reading to kindergartners. My Rotary goes to the local elementary school one Thursday morning a month to read to the students. The kindergarten ( Read more... )

1. BD is comoing home--with luck, she'll be here in 15 minutes or so ( Read more... )

1. Sending a child back to their second year of college is so much easier, in all kinds of ways, than sending them off the first year. Less stuff to buy, fewer jitters.  Even though, in my case, the first year wasn't that difficult. Five hour drive time and easy email/phone access are hugely different from a 12-hour time difference and unreliable, ( Read more... )

Today was a day to fill the well.

I slept in.
I read the comics.
I hoed the garden.
Best of all,
the three of us went to see Almost, Maine at St. Michael's Playhouse (matinee performance because we watch our pennies). John Cariani, who wrote this, is BRILLIANT. It's anthology play about love in a cold climate, a heart-warming comedy, a showcase for four ( Read more... )

This week the Vermont Department of Libraries announced that John Green's Looking for Alaska has won the 2007-08 Green Mountain Book Award. This is the third year of the award, which was previously won by Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper (2006-07 and Angela Johnson's First Part Last (2005-06). This award is chosen by students in grades 9-12 who ( Read more... )