For myself and all my book-worshiping friends:

Pratt Library's collection of ex libris bookplate designs, from DO.

It might could be amusing to etch an ex-libris stamp into a Kindle, though maybe the concept is obliterated by pop-up copyright warnings.

I seem to be on a kick for making swimming rama for dinner. I'm trying to get it right, see ( Read more... )

Grrrr. Public libraries rarely ever have the books I want. I still don't have a Netflix account, but if one were started for books - even, or especially, with library-style borrowing constraints - I would get a lifetime membership NOW. We have ILL, this ought to be possible.

I've noticed a theme in Alan Lightman's work lately: it's all middle-aged men who feel hidebound by life but terrified of death. It's not good for me at this juncture, but I flatly adore his writing style. I should not finish Ghost, but I probably will anyway because I have no sense.

y al que teme la muerte la llevará por sus hombrosI would like ( Read more... )

I should probably do something useful with myself, or something, but curling up on the couch with a blanket, a teapot, and Simone de Beauvoir's biography is sounding like an excellent Friday night. Maybe I'll work on Stupid Web Toy later, or poke my head outside for coffee. It looks gloomy out there, and the bike ride home was cold. (And hazardous ( Read more... )

I am doing the best I can. I am hoping I am good enough. I am holding you close, as close as I can, hand cradling your head and breath on your hair, trying to remember that I cannot keep you safe, but I can keep you loved.

Butch is a Noun (pp. 93-94)

Current reading heap has been expanded to include Stone Butch Blues. Um, fuck. I was given plenty of fair warning, but it's still making my heart beat in angry thuds against my chest walls.

Dear kittybrains: no, no, no, the unfixed charcoal drawings are not for pawing. I guess I should go fix them, apres-smudge. Hmph ( Read more... )

Ye Welding Project is completed! No one died! We went to Pies and Pints for dinner! Life is good.

holeinthedonut, Goddess of Flame, did all the actual joining today; I held up the fucking-around-with-random-hardware end of things. I am exceedingly pleased that I thought of adding threaded posts to bolt the welded part to the wooden part, bought the right die, ( Read more... )

I'm not actually on LibraryThing. I should fix that.

Via rocket_jockey: "Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list."

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell *
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
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