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http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0812978188&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI am home from Seattle and really tired and feel like I should write something, but I have nothing to say. So I am looking at Blogger and see that they are partnered with Amazon.com to allow for some monetizing on my little blog. … Continue Reading “Monetizing”
You might recall my telling you that my nephew Alex was unimpressed when I gifted him with a hardcover copy of Ramona the Pest for his 5th birthday last month. I spoke with my brother today, and now it seems the kid can’t get enough… Continue Reading “Aunt Anne Wins”
The Poetry of John Milton is the second course I have gone through on Academic Earth. As I’ve said, I picked it because I have had Paradise Lost on my shelf for years and nearly half of the lectures were on that piece alone.… Continue Reading “The Poetry of John Milton, Lectures by John Rogers”
I had watched several episodes of True Blood before I took a look at the novels on which it was based. The Sookie Stackhouse series is on Book 9 or 10. When I decided that I like it, I figured I might as well… Continue Reading “Score Two For Kindle”
Chicago blogger Erin Shea wrote a piece about JD Salinger yesterday. She had been listening to the NPR report with an English teacher. ““This is the book they keep,” he said. “This is the one they never give away.”” Shea continued: “I never have… Continue Reading “Goddam Salinger”
I finally decided that my next course on Academic Earth will be The Poetry of John Milton, by a Yale professor named John Rogers. I have had Paradise Lost on my shelf since I graduated college, but when I would wander over to pick… Continue Reading “Score One for Kindle”
I was at my friend Noah’s last night with my friends. All nerds and big readers. Jamie said he was thinking of committing to the 100 Book Challenge. I told him that if I could (just barely and totally cheating) make 50 in 2009 he… Continue Reading “Best and Worst and Book of the Day”
Franklin, Tennessee. I mentioned that it sounded like a good road trip after I read the Robert Hicks book The Widow of the South this past summer. It is south of Nashville on I-65 – about an eight hour drive – and has a… Continue Reading “Road Trip: Franklin, Tennessee”
You might be aware that I celebrate with my family on Boxing Day, the 26th, rather than on Christmas Day. For the third year in a row, this has given me the extra day to inish whatever Christmas crafty-gift I hadn’t yet completed. This… Continue Reading “Christmas Day 2009”
Since I had a dangerously high tower of unread books piled on the speaker next to my to-be-read bookcase, and since the Library’s Used Book Sale is in a couple of weeks, I decided to cull. As in Donating Books I Haven’t Even Read… Continue Reading “The Bookshelves”
The Next Dark Age 