Notice (on the sidebar) that Lena and I now have the same book on our separate bedside tables. That’s because my bookworm side trumped my mom side and I just couldn’t wait for her to finish Little Town on the Prairie before starting it myself. So we’re going back and forth (”it’s my turn now” [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Why Hubby needs his own blog
So, he was surfing the net the other day and came across this marvelous photo: And his immediate thought was that it just begs for funny captions, heh heh. Here are some of Steve’s best efforts: BUSH to PUTIN: “No, you have to wait: on YOUR birthday, YOU get to wear the red robe and hat. Just be [...]
Breathless
Wow, it’s been a busy week. A LOT going on . . . 1. I had the theater experience of a lifetime. God bless the University Musical Society, for bringing the Royal Shakespeare Society to Ann Arbor, Mich. They didn’t just come and do a couple of shows, either. They were in residence for three weeks, [...]
This book is one hundred dollars
I started Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close with low expectations. I didn’t even want to read it. All I knew about it was that Jonathan Safran Foer, who judging by his very cute author photo couldn’t be more than about fifteen years old, was considered to be some kind of wunderkind prodigy making a big [...]
Bookworm read WHAT?
The assignment. The other day Veronica posed me a challenge I could not resist. “Join me in writing a post about chick lit,” she suggested. She was planning a post tentatively titled “Why I Hate Chick Lit” and she guessed that I might be in the same camp. In fact — I realized after some [...]
What the Civics teacher said
I hope my dear hubby won’t mind me posting an excerpt from the email he sent out to his extended family. Let me add a bit from a Civics teacher’s perspective. I’ve been showing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to my four classes of ninth graders, as we study the legislative branch. We’ve been seeing [...]
Disappointed
My Penguin Classics project is proceeding ve-e-e-e-ry slowly. I requested La Regenta, by Leopoldo Alas, via interlibrary loan. It took forever, but it finally came, all the way from Dallas! (Written by Alas, sent from Dallas. :) ) And you know what? They only let me have it for three weeks, and they refused to [...]