Brian Jaques (rhymes with rakes) signed copies of Voyage of Slaves at the south Borders in Colorado Springs yesterday, and I happened to be there. First of all, let me give the disclaimer: I haven’t read any of his books. I picked up Redwall yesterday and read a few chapters, but I haven’t made any […]
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd I’m sure pretty nearly everybody who’s going to read this book has already read it, but I had some thoughts I wanted to write down anyway. Spoilers ahead, for those who mind. This is a book about the South during the Civil Rights Movement; a white
Ray made her first real whistle last night. Ecstatic am I.
This comes from my brother Matt, a graphic designer and doer of all things newspapery.
My minimum required daily allowance of delight was met today upon finding out that Lee’s boss (who lives in an apartment) has a pet duck. “Almost as big as a goose,” says one source.
Name five books, music CDs, or movies, if any, that would you rather buy someone a copy of rather than loan out your last copy. Yours truly: Annotated Alice, Lewis/Tenniel/GardnerCollected Fictions, Jorge Luis BorgesFLCL (anime)Master Li and Number Ten Ox Novels, Barry HughartThe Sandman series …and I would be pretty itchy about any Tom Waits
[Spoilers below.] Agatha Christie writes, in At Bertram’s Hotel: There had, of course, been many other hotels on the model of Bertram’s. Some still existed, but nearly all had felt the wind of change. They had necessarily to modernize themselves, to cater for a different clientele. Bertram’s, too, had had to change, but it had
***Dave says, “It’s just hard to be spontaneous when you have little kids around (which is deeply, deeply ironic, given how spontaneous *they* are — Conservation of Spontaneity?)” Just so.
Woot! This spring, I wrote a murder-mystery game expansion pack for the “Way out West” game for Freeform Games. Playtesting was wrapped up a few weeks ago, and the game has been published on the website. OoOoOoOo!
