Attack of the Gnomes
We have someone coming over this evening to talk to us about new kitchen countertops. Exciting! So in lieu of …
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Forget About It
Are you like me and find yourself leaving comments on blogs to the effect of “I read this X years …
Storytelling in Pitch Dark
My post yesterday about Renata Adler’s Pitch Dark is rather incomplete and kind of confusing, just like the book! Ha! …
Pitch Dark
Renata Adler’s Pitch Dark is one of those complex books that benefit from rereading. Even just going back over passages …
Sprouts and Blooms
I read a really good gardening book this week, The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem by …
A Virtual Love
Andrew Blackman’s novel A Virtual Love is a rather clever book. When we think of virtual these days it is …
May Book Notes
Goodness, how time flies! Here we are in the middle of May already. I can’t say that I have been …
How Literature Saved My Life
How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields is not your regular sort of memoir. While I was reading it …
Garden Crazy, Part Two
Yesterday’s garden post was getting a bit too long so today, I finish it off. I hope the anticipation of …
Garden Crazy, Part One
It has been a gardening extravaganza weekend! Bookman and I are so sore and tired that we have gone beyond …
