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A meme!
My first post in ages! I did a meme. I got it from several places.
What we have here are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, asterix the ones you own. ( Read more... ) -
Last book
In the interest of symmetry, I finished _Secrets of Big League Play_, by Robert Smith, 1965, 171 pp (minus the 71 or so I started with). I know feel like an official baseball inside, and I shall confidently shout out instructions at practice and deliver little strategy pep-talks during the rides to games. I just hope nobody asks me to demonstrate ( Read more... ) -
Finished a book!
Which given my attention span, is cause for celebration (I'm also reading about five other books, plus the Baseball book, which I put down after the chapter on batting ( Read more... ) -
48 Hour Reading Challenge
I'm starting the 48 Hour challenge (http://motherreader.blogspot.com/2007/04/second-annual-48-hour-book-challenge.html) at 6:00 PM Friday night ( Read more... ) -
Cooking Cookies
TheGreat found himself solely responsible for cookie making today, since I was throwing together a meatloaf for us and some people who just had a baby and find themselves saddled with my cooking for tonight, poor souls. Alexander had to read the recipe, measure the stuff (I did manage to help a bit with mission-critical ingredients such as vanilla ( Read more... ) -
Long delayed joys
I have long considered Eleanor Estes's book _The Witch Family_ to be a beacon of perfection, a book that I read knowing that it would be even more wonderful read aloud. This was a strange feeling, seeing that in living memory I usually hate it when people read to me, unless I can't read for some reason that I'm not grumpy about (I'm driving, for ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday Paulos!
He's five years old today. It was a nice day -- he was still rather low on energy from his fever last week. Cupcakes went to school, he got to pick lunch (cold cereal), and then we went to Chuck E Cheese for dinner. Poor Flameboy fell asleep on the way and didn't wake up until almost time to leave. Then home for cake and prezzies ( Read more... ) -
Happy Easter
This is our second Easter, but it's at a lower key. The boys have been sick for the past few days, so we just smashed some eggs (TheGreat won). Then I'll drag everyone out for haircuts and prepare for the Big Birthday tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
Done!
I got my taxes done. Actually, I got them done *yesterday* which is a whole day early, so I'm ahead of next year. Maybe by the time I'm fifty I'll get them done reasonably ( Read more... ) -
At Norwescon today
Lots of fun for me -- the GOH is Lois McMaster Bujold, one of my favorite authors. I got a book signed, heard some of her next book, and even listened to some filk. TheGreat and Moneybags came home today, and TheGreat went back to the con with me in the evening to play some Laser tag. Much fun was had by all ( Read more... )