In the last few days I sent out drafts of three brochures, a website, a flyer, and half of a newsletter. I went to a marketing committee meeting where I made deeply insightful comments about the virtues of using plain text rather than html for electronic newsletters. And I got hired for a big website that I am very excited about! Woo-hoo!
Category Archives: Patrick O’Brian
Laura Ingalls Wilder slaps me in the face
As you probably know, I’m pretty outspoken on the topic of censorship. I believe it’s my job and no one else’s to decide what my kids should or shouldn’t be allowed to read. So when Lena received a copy of Farmer Boy for her birthday a few weeks ago, of course I had to stick to my principles and read it first. ;-)
Patrick O’Brian . . . again!
Since I made it to the, um, final rounds in the BoB thingy I feel under a little pressure to come up with a super-literary post. Luckily, I have a perfect topic. Not only is it, you know, literary, but also it gives me yet another opportunity to blab about my favorite author, Patrick O’Brian, and perhaps entice new readers to give him a try.
Bookshelf
Well, I gave up on Out of the Silent Planet, at least temporarily. The book was just too ugly to read. So, groping on my bedside table for anything — anything! — to read, I of course came up with a Patrick O’Brian, number 3 in the series, H.M.S. Surprise. We keep Patrick O’Brians scattered all over the house, because you never know when you might need a good roborative dose. This is the one where they are taking the envoy to Malaysia, but he dies on the way there. (That wasn’t a spoiler. Plot is not what these books are about, though my husband would disagree.) But I did go to the library and find a nice, hard-cover, Bound-to-Stay-Bound copy of Planet. However, it’s going to have to wait a little longer, because I also stopped by Nicola’s this morning and picked up a copy of Confessions of Super-Mom. Daniel has just gone down for his nap. Sofa and Confessions: Here! I! Come!
Another recipe, a paean to P. O’B., and more on the ideal reader
I had my favorite thing for lunch today. Here it is: cut a pita bread in half across its diameter, then separate the sides so you have four half-moons. Cover each one with slices of pepper jack. Put ‘em under the broiler until the cheese is brown and bubbly, about 5 minutes. If they burn a little, so much the better. For an extra special treat put some thin slices of ripe tomatoes straight from your garden under the cheese. Ahhhhhh.
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Heavy, man!
Here goes my first attempt at blogging. Thanks to my pal doulicia for giving me the idea!
I’m about two-thirds of the way through Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clark. It’s a combination of historical fiction & fantasy, set in England during the Napoleonic Wars. I can’t help comparing the author to Patrick O’Brian, who has pretty much cornered the market in Napoleonic-era historical novels. Read more on Heavy, man!…
