Books, NPR & Short-Term Plans
Busy busy busy! It’s all exciting stuff, though, that should keep me pretty well engaged. Having largely divorced myself from the online video game that was eating my life, and having the holidays done with, I’ve discovered all manner of free time. Course, that may simply be an illusion due to the holiday schedule at [...]
Books, NPR & Short-Term Plans
Busy busy busy! It’s all exciting stuff, though, that should keep me pretty well engaged. Having largely divorced myself from the online video game that was eating my life, and having the holidays done with, I’ve discovered all manner of free time. Course, that may simply be an illusion due to the holiday schedule at [...]
Not Among My Finest Traits
Lest any of you be fooled into thinking I’ve got a fair to middling handle on, well, anything, I present to you three areas of my life that are pretty appalling: My Car. I drive a Subaru Forester which I bought used a couple of years ago. It was well-used when I got it, and [...]
I Made Butter!
And by “I made butter,” I mean, “I threw heavy whipping cream into the food processor for 15 minutes.” Seriously. That’s all it takes. My processor literally requires ear plugs to use for any time at all, so I put it in the dining room while I was making dinner the other night and let [...]
Home is where the chickens are
Keeping up with all of the blogs we read is hard enough, let alone on days when some crazy woman makes five posts in rapid-fire succession. Sorry about that, I just have had so much I’ve wanted to write about, and haven’t had the time to do so. I know on days when The Pioneer [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
- The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Current books:
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
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Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
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Song of Ice and Fire Set: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
Recent books:
- Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
- A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by Tom Franklin by Tom Franklin
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
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