There’s something absolutely relaxing about spending a rainy afternoon in a local bookshop. I’ve been known to spend upwards of hours just purusing the shelves for reads of any kind–fiction, non, cooking, knitting, and the like. It’s like the bookshop and I are soulmates, everlasting companions, and downright addicted to each other–I get the experience [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘reading’
May 28, 2009
Y.A. books are about to become my “other half”…
This summer, as part of my reading agenda, I am feverishly trying to wade my way through the better part of a whole host of new young adult novels and the like which we’ve just received at my library, so that I can provide better recommendations to my students–and based entirely on the fact that [...]
January 21, 2009
Pfff on those scholars who attribute the blues strictly to tragedy…there are no blues to be had reading these books.
I have had my head in pleasure reading books for the last couple of weeks, especially since classes in my last semester of library school (!) have yet to begin so all it is now is working and reading and crafting.
The other day I picked up two reads I’ve been dying to check out for [...]
January 15, 2009
The “meat” of a good read is in the storytelling…even if it’s about The Donner Party.
Over the last days, I haven’t had tons of time for my latest cast-on because I’ve had my head stuck in the pages of Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick ever since it landed on my doorstep yesterday morning.
And might I say, as Boston readies, and begins, this heinous winter [...]
January 13, 2009
Unwanted Persons? 1,344 Reasons to Adore Famed Photographer Gisele Freund.
It’s been my first decently free morning from rushing around or busy getting things accomplished in as many days, so I took to catching up on reading (and blogging!) and gulping coffee and of course, what’s going on in the world.
Since the Thursday edition of the NY Times, I’ve been addicted to checking out everything [...]
December 31, 2008
Whale’s tail? Nope, tale.
I quite highly recommend that you read a thrilling tome about the history of whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin. The book, Leviathan, is absolutely brills, really, with no detail left unturned and a comprehensive history of England and the role its “entrepreneurs” and “explorers” played on the entire practice.
And for those of you [...]
December 3, 2008
No one even stirring…except me, that is. Over the brownie bowl.
Sometimes, it’s nice to be up when no one else is. Especially living in the city, while theoretically there are handfuls and handfuls of people up and about, it feels entirely peaceful, like you are the only one still blinking.
Alas, that is what I did last night since I had no obligations or work this [...]
