What kind of woman has a saffron quilt on her bed? Wears a white linen dressing gown? Keeps beside her bed a stack of gardening books? Stores all her clothes in a shabby antique wardrobe, with a mirror built into its door? Who is she when she is in this room, alone and unobserved, and… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday
Month: July 2010
Library Loot 7.18.10
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages readers to share the goodies that they picked up at their libraries each week! I got many treats at the library yesterday – mainly due to their recently expanded Graphic Novels section, which made me incredibly happy to discover. From top to bottom: Circle… Continue reading Library Loot 7.18.10
Teaser Tuesday
To figure out how best to prevent motion sickness, you first need to figure out how best to bring it on. Aerospace research has excelled at the latter, if not the former, and perhaps nowhere more triumphantly than at the U.S. Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida: the birthplace of the human disorientation device.… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday
A Saturday Morning in Stars Hallow
My best friend Emma and I have many things in common, including (but not limited to) our love for books, children’s literature, Bruegger’s Bagels, the Anne of Green Gables mini-series, paper, pens, touring the homes of dead authors, bookplates, Crazy Bread, James Taylor, John Mayer, popcorn, road trips, Ireland, hooded sweatshirts, and tacos. But by… Continue reading A Saturday Morning in Stars Hallow
Polysyllabic Spree – May 2010
As you can see, I’m once again very late on posting my Polysyllabic spree posts. :) I haven’t even done May, and I must get caught up on June as well. Oy! Let’s get started. The Books Purchased stack for May is incredibly large, and (alarmingly) does not include the 25+ books I acquired at… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – May 2010