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afternoon
a gorgeous, autumnal sunday. we got up leisurely, even the mouton, and lazily made our way to the marché colbert, bordeaux's sunday fresh air market, down on the quai. the market area was recently redone -- lots of construction down there on the quai, y'know, city improvements (brainchild of our recently departed and even more recently re-installed ( Read more... ) -
head's up
it's nothing personal, but i'm making a few friends list changes. -
shelfari
anybody heard of this? it's this funny website where you make a "bookshelf," adding books that you've read/are reading/planning to read and it's all cross-referenced with other people's shelves, if you see what i mean.
wanna check it out?
www.shelfari.com
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another book review
okay. here's another book review, written for the monthly newsletter of this funny club i belong to over here in bordeaux. one of these days i'll write about the club. it should be worth a post or two. quite a group. anyway, i'll do that later. some other day. for now, here's the book:
Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics, an ( Read more... ) -
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i belong to this funny club here in bordeaux. all women who either hail from an anglophone country or have passed significant time in an anglophone country. that is, an english language club. i've mentioned this group here and there before. i recently offered to write a book review for their monthly newsletter and figured, since at least some of ( Read more... ) -
a variety of possibly not all that interesting things
here are some things:
i love my tiny tiny garden. private outdoor space isn't easy to come by in the city. gardens are kind of a rarity. ours is tiny. i mean, really really tiny. it runs the width of our house (maybe around 25 feet?) and is around 6 feet wide. so it's long and wide, if you can envision. mostly it's cement, but against the back ( Read more... ) -
current music obsession
Skye (the voice of Morcheeba). Mind How You Go. i can't stop listening to it. over and over.
