So, after a year of waking up every day and not having much to say, this morning, my brain chose violence. I’m still not sure WHAT I have to say, but, honestly, I think I am just tired of this page having a date on it that’s so far in the past. But that’s how
In the blog previous to this blog, the late, lamented 52.blog, I used to participate weekly in a meme called “The Sunday Post” which was a chance to share news, and anything book-related from the week that didn’t warrant its own post. Because this is a more general blog, if there’s news, I have probably
The things I will think about to avoid thinking abut what’s going on in Washington. So, I tell people I am a hard introvert. I prefer being alone to almost any other state, I crave quiet and the comfort of a completely empty schedule. People exhaust me. I want a comfy chair, a good book,
At the end of what I am told is the longest month on record since we started tracking such things in the mid-fourteenth century, here’s where we are: Yep. That about sums it up. Best book I read this month was Think Twice by the incomparable Harlan Coben. But it’s the—I don’t know, twelfth?—book in
Cause January is the longest month. I swear, I feel like it’s January 87th. Maybe October will be shorter. Blogtober has a nice ring to it. What books do you want to read? I suppose it’s cheating to say “All of them. All the books.” And it would be not only cheating, but it would
I kept seeing this book on every MM Romance top ten for 2024, and yet I was still a little reluctant to read it. For the life of me, I do not know why because it was just gorgeous. What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? I read. Obviously. What’s interesting is
So today, we confirmed (by a Vance tiebreak) a FOX news host as Secretary of Defense. It’s the latest piece of evidence that I am trapped in some sort of absurdist black comedy. I think I’m handling it pretty well. I read a whole book, threatened to not leave my living room for the next
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting. I’ve lived in DC for 35 of the last 37 years, and never managed to visit the Mormon temple, which is just up the beltway. Part of that is that it’s not always open to the public, and figuring
You may notice that right now, am averaging a book a day, far ahead of my planned book a week. This is due to two factors. Maybe three, but the first two are sort of two sides of the same coin. One, it’s fully and completely winter here, and we are all nesting a bit,
One of the advantages of having a really slow reading year is that you find out when you go to look for things to read that not only have your favorite authors released new books, but it’s been long enough that they are easy to get at the library. And I know that I said
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