This week's Top Ten hosted by The Broke and the Bookish asks for your top bookish websites, organziations, apps, etc. You can participate in the Top Ten Tuesday by following this link. 1. Gnook. I decided to write my own list because I hadn't seen … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: On coming home and heading South
June 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On Sunday, I found myself at the end a 380 mile drive from Brevard, North Carolina to Madison, Indiana. Brevard is right on the border of the Pisgah National Forest, and in a broad valley of the Appalachians. You can order sweet tea everywhere and … [Read more...]
Lots of traveling and knitting, not much reading
June 25, 2011 By 3 Comments
infant cocoonI have to report that my trend of non-readingness continues unabated. I’m currently on Summer Trip #2, in lovely Brevard, North Carolina, where our daughter is at horse camp in the Pisgah National Forest while we grown ups have Adult … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Pontooning on the Ohio River
June 15, 2011 By 4 Comments
No faithful readers, I have not completely disappeared off the face of the planet. I did go to Austin, Texas, which may not have disappeared off the face of the planet, but seems to be a very difficult place for rain clouds to find. Austin is in … [Read more...]
Book Review: Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America
June 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
This is about my third attempt at this review. The problem, in addition to being in the middle of Day Four of a kick-my-ass spring head cold, is that I just have too much to say about this book. I like it too much to be short, so on this third … [Read more...]
Saturday Snapshot: Blue devil anglerfish
June 4, 2011 By 10 Comments
Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce of At Home With Books. To join in, just post a photo (new or old) but one of your own and add your link to Alyce's post.This is a picture of a blue devil anglerfish I knit for my stepdaugther. This pattern is … [Read more...]
Book Review: Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family’s Claim to the Confederate Anthem
June 2, 2011 By 6 Comments
This is a book that was recommended by the Carolina Chocolate Drops at last year’s Ohio River Valley Folk Festival. It’s not every day that a band comes with a recommended reading list, but always a plus when they do. The Carolina Chocolate Drops are … [Read more...]
Blog In Place Hop, May 25 – June1: You just don’t belong
May 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
This morning I started reading a “food memoir” called Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya. Furiya grew up just up the road from Madison in Versailles, Indiana. Ver-sales, not Ver-sie, thank you very … [Read more...]
Scene of the Blog and 100 Follower Giveaway
May 25, 2011 By 10 Comments
Oh frabjous day, You Think Too Much is being featured on Scene of the Blog over at Kittling: Books today! I love this feature, which asks bloggers to take pictures and then describe the locations where they blog, write and read. You can see pictures … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Hunger Games Trilogy
May 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
Sometimes it pays to come to the game late. This would certainly be true if you were in the Hunger games, and is also true of reading the books. As I finished The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, and moved on to the next book, I was thinking, “Thank … [Read more...]
