Reading in the New Year

This isn’t something I would normally do, but I’ve seen some other folks doing it, so I thought I might try jotting down some reading ideas for this year. Not resolutions. I’ve said before, I love to be spontaneous in my reading. I tend to get cranky if I’m pressured to read anything that doesn’t [...]

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garden fever already

I just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable Miracle. It’s a great book about eating local. It’s more fun than Joan Dye Gussow’s This Organic Life and more practical than Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan. I still recommend the latter, however. I’m vegetarian, so there were some parts that were upsetting and I’m [...]

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The case of the toppling nightstand

Ok, so it’s not quite there yet, but if you look at the books that I have listed as on my nightstand (I am truly reading all of them at once) and add to that the books I have on hold you can see the trouble I’m in. Add to that the three tubes of [...]

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Armchair Traveler Challenge – Some Possibilities

Many of the books that I read would fit into this challenge. In fact, I just finished a book too soon called the Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones that would have been perfect for the challenge. Alas, I finished it too soon. Now that I’m trying to come up with six books, I’m having [...]

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Going Way Back…

At some point I would like to do a personal Classics challenge along the lines of what Danielle is doing with Shakespeare. A while back I went through a Medieval Lit. phase. I found the syllabus for a Med. Lit. class and read some of the books on the list that I hadn’t read. Ok. [...]

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