This week's hop from Crazy-for-Books is to share a post from this week, book review or not. Well, that's relatively easy. This week I gave a relatively short review of Winter's Bone and Novel About My Wife. It was interesting to write about the … [Read more...]
Book Reviews: Drugs in the Ozarks and crazy in London
February 9, 2011 By 6 Comments
My stepdaughter is home from school today with a yucky cough and on again, off again fever, so here are two brief reviews which make for an interesting compare and contrast.Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell, is the story of Ree, a sixteen year old … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Not the Super Bowl
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday was the day of (this year, at least) a pretty good football game bookended and permeated with a lot of consumerist noise. I’m not going to get on a high horse and say I don’t like watching the commercials, too. I do. But I actually like … [Read more...]
The Sunday Salon: My pilgrimage at Tinker Creek
February 6, 2011 By 6 Comments
Last night I finished my about my about two month long read of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, so I feel like I have truly been camped out at Tinker Creek right along with her and thought I would share my experiences for my first Sunday … [Read more...]
Book Review: Room and cases of extreme isolation
February 5, 2011 By 2 Comments
For those of you who may not yet know what Room is about, Emma Donoghue's novel is the story of a woman who is kidnapped and forcibly held in a room for 6 years in a shed in her kidnappers back yard, essentially serving as his sex slave. She gives … [Read more...]
What I’m reading right now
February 4, 2011 By 14 Comments
This week's question from the Crazy-for-Books blog hop is...what I'm reading, right now. Right now I'm not reading anything, I'm writing a blog post.At some point today when I finish this blog post, I will again be reading. Before I met my lovely … [Read more...]
Anywhere but here: what book or story would you like to inhabit?
February 2, 2011 By 13 Comments
Wow! So excited that this week’s blog hop from The Blue Bookcase is my question! Which kind of makes me think I should have had an answer prepared, but, alas, no. And truthfully, as soon as I thought of this question and sent if off, I thought to … [Read more...]
Random Wednesday
February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Not actually my hand, but it is the one that's suffered the fiddling injuryI’m in something of a reading void. Well, I did read a book for one of the book groups I’m in, but I just can’t bring myself to review it, or even, in fact, mention it’s … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Our local art scene and lessons from a self-portrait
January 31, 2011 By 5 Comments
Galatea's Art Supply StoreYou might be surprised at the scope and variety of the art scene in Madison given the size of our town and its location (not being in France or New York or the Southwest or whatever particular location you associate with … [Read more...]
Book Review: Nashville Chrome
January 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
I used to read articles by Rick Bass in one of my favorite magazines, The Oxford American. I don’t know what that title sounds like to folks who don’t know the magazine, but the "Oxford" refers to Oxford, Mississippi, though the magazine is no longer … [Read more...]
