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Balcony Garden
Last night, I bought some plants for a balcony garden. Two Roma tomato plants, two cherry (or sugar) tomato plants, two strawberry plants, two asian pepper plants, a few little Miracle-Gro Gro-pods for my son (1 marigold, 1 green pepper, and I think 1 eggplant), a few pots, soil, and a pretty dragon fly garden decoration. This made me feel ( Read more... ) -
Literature: Sundiver
I finished David Brin's Sundiver (The Uplift Saga: Book One) last night. After our move, I just wanted some fluff to read, taking a short break from Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
I really like Brin's writing style and his vision of "the future". My husband has more of the Uplift Saga and a few other books by this author, which I hope to ( Read more... ) -
Literature: The Tomb and Other Tales
Finished reading The Tomb and Other Tales by H.P. Lovecraft a few weeks to a month or so ago. I'm not terribly impressed. So many people make such a big deal of his writings that I was thoroughly disappointed early into the stories. When I went to the hospital to be induced, I took this book as my "light reading"... I think that pretty much sums ( Read more... ) -
Literature: The Two Towers
A couple weeks ago, I finished reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers.
Short of it is... I really enjoyed it. Just like with The Fellowship of the Ring, I found myself annoyed about how much the movies changed and took out. I can forgive cutting out parts and changing elements to make that work, but some of the changes just seemed... unnecessary ( Read more... ) -
Literature: The Hundred Secret Senses
Over this past weekend, I finished reading The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan. I've read a couple books by this author, and some are more successful than others. This one wasn't as good as some of her other novels, but it was a nice read ( Read more... ) -
Literature: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I finished reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows a couple weeks ago.
It's an interesting book that takes place post WW2, following Juliet Ashton's life for a couple of years. In this novel, she's an author who has become very popular with her comedic articles, but years for something more ( Read more... ) -
Literature: Ruth
A week or two ago, I finished reading Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was written in the 1800's about a very contraversial topic back then. The story is about a young seamstress, recently orphaned and fairly naive, just a month or two shy of 16 years old, who becomes involved with a wealthy man. He manipulates situations in order to appease his ( Read more... )
