Yesterday was Bilbo Baggins's birthday. It's the only fictional-character-birthday I know, and not because I'm a big Tolkien nerd (though I am), but because it's also my sister's birthday. Just before my own birthday earlier in the month (or as I like to think of it: the annual reminder from my mother about what LABOR … Continue reading Bilbo’s Birthday (or: the Baggins-ian Calendar Proposition)
Category: Reading
Between the Covers
Hey, take your mind out of the gutter! BOOK covers. I'm between the BOOK-covers of one of the hilarious social commentaries novels penned by Charles Dickens---and this particular copy of this particular book has me thinking... I really do love the heft and the presence of a real paper book. BUT. Because I don't have … Continue reading Between the Covers
How to Read the New York Times (the A.D.D. Edition)
Do you ever try to retrace the rabbit-trail... ...that somehow connected the thing you WERE doing with the thing you find yourself doing NOW? If you're like me, that rabbit trail may take several days to loop around to its starting point (assuming it even does). But if you're one of those Focused People With … Continue reading How to Read the New York Times (the A.D.D. Edition)
The Care & Feeding of Books
"Their schooling over, readers were presumably qualified to make their own additions to the books in their care." --H.J. Jackson, in Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books "books as pets--pet dragons, maybe, or something exotic--care & feeding of your book" --scribbled note in my own (heavily annotated) copy of Marginalia I used to starve my books, … Continue reading The Care & Feeding of Books
Bang-up Spin-off: “An Assembly Such as This” (Idaho Writers series)
I suppose one way to measure the popularity of a Classic is to count the number of spin-offs it's spawned. Gauging by that measure, I'd have to say that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice surpasses "popular" and rings in at "obsession;" a quick bookstore-search turned up more than 50 novels based on Austen's golden oldie. … Continue reading Bang-up Spin-off: “An Assembly Such as This” (Idaho Writers series)
Kana's Chronicles 