Posted in Daily Life, tagged books, movie, Rex Libris, stuff on January 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ah, yes, the year end wrap-up. Except that it’s already the new year…damn.
Anyway, I have this pile of little bits of paper that I scribbled something on when I thought, “Hey, I should blog about that.” Mostly, it’s books that I read and thought were good enough to recommend.
But first, a movie that you should [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Library, tagged books, camping, rum&coke, tent on November 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The good thing about having a few days off is that you can do silly things. Like this:
Yes, we decided very, very late one night that we needed to go camping…indoors. So we set up the huge tent (it was a wedding gift…see, this is what happens when you give a man one of those [...]
Posted in Library, Random, tagged books, genius, poetry on September 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Found this poem the other day and I love it…it’s called Please Bury Me in the Library by J. Patrick Lewis from his book by the same name:
Please bury me in the library
In the clean, well-lighted stacks
Of Novels, History, Poetry,
Right next to the Paperbacks,
Where the Kids’ Books dance
With True Romance
And the Dictionary dozes.
Please bury me [...]
Posted in Daily Life, tagged books, funny stuff, go away kid I'm reading, Jen Lancaster on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yeah…sorry about that, but I have been barreling my way through all of Jen Lancaster’s books.
Although I don’t agree with her politics, the woman makes me guffaw (that’s right, that’s what I said…guffaw). You can check out her website for a quick synopsis of all her books (be sure to watch the video!) and also [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Library, tagged art, books, bookshelves, cave, fun on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No, I haven’t seen the new Batman movie…but I did find something very cool I want to build:
The Book Cave : Read about it in the New York Times here. I wonder if I can convince our library to put one in the children’s room?
Although I imagine it would need to be up a bit [...]
Posted in Bird, Daily Life, Insect, Library, tagged Bird, books, cicada, Insect, Library, life list, louvre, north rim, sandhill crane, seychelles, travel, zion on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So…what’s up with this recent trend in “before you die” literature?! (Let’s call them BYD books).
I see these books at the front of bookstores, mentioned in magazine articles and, most recently, featured in the new books section of my library. January’s issue of the Smithsonian has an article talking about all of this. Can we [...]
