Heeheehee, this RIP Challenge is jolly good fun. At this rate I will have read way too many spooky books before Halloween. I should pace myself, except I can’t because The Girl in a Swing just came in at the library and I went and picked it up today and I really really really want to read it. Jennifer Finney Boylan‘s I’m Looking Through You is all about how Jenny Boylan (Jenny! hooray! More people should be called Jenny!) grew up as a boy in a spooky old house, haunted by ghosts and writing under the wallpaper. She writes with…
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My own personal game for the DogEar Reading Challenge is to read only books recommended to me by Jeane. Ya heard. Thus: 1. Adult fantasy/sci-fi 2. A book featuring an animal 3. A YA or juvenile fiction book 4. A nonfiction book on an obscure topic/a topic you don’t usually read about 5. A book about gardening, plants, or food So these are mine: 1. Chalice, Robin McKinley 2. The Coachman Rat, David Henry Wilson 3. Daughters of the Sunstone, Sydney Van Scyoc 4. West with the Night, Beryl Markham 5. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan I totally meant…
9 CommentsMagic. I should have done this, like, much sooner. Except that I didn’t believe (despite ample evidence all through my blogroll to the contrary) that it was possibly possible that you could really truly genuinely say, “Excuse me, may I have a copy of that book, which I desperately desperately want, before it is released?” and then receive an actual copy of the book in the post. BEFORE IT IS OUT. And yet: Good, eh? I like this cover best – the American cover is a little too bluey and generic for me (generic but not spare like my copy…
13 CommentsI cannot hold out any longer! I know I was going to do the rereading thing, and not get any new books out of the library, but I cannot maintain in the face of everyone on my blogroll going on and on about the thousands of amazing spooky books they are thinking of reading, and having the pretty picture of the girl, and putting up covers of beautiful books all the time. I AM ONLY HUMAN. Eee, I’m excited. I can totally read four spooky books by the end of October! (she said optimistically) Definitely I am going to read…
23 CommentsFrederick Douglass is my hero. Him and Julian of Norwich – an unlikely pair, and I am not really sure what they would make of each other, but there you go. I have been saying for ages that we should put Frederick Douglass on our money. And bump Jackson. Jackson is the obvious choice to get bumped, but I also think we could get rid of Grant, in a pinch – it’s not that I hate him or anything, it’s just that, you know, he wasn’t that amazing a president, and we are already representin’ for the Civil War with…
6 CommentsMy sister has this magical ability to get people to do things for her. It is amazing. Everyone in my family does stuff for her even when we have just said, “No! Lazy! Do it yourself! My God you are so lazy!” Like, we’ll both be at my parents’ house, and I’ll be curled up comfortably on the couch reading something, and she’ll be all, “Why are you reading that? It looks stupid. What’s it about? Sounds stupid. You should be reading something with quality like Whatever Happened to Janie. Will you get me a bowl of ice cream? Please? …
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