Recommended Reading
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ lane cake
It’s no secret To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite novels (I have a cat named Harper Lee, for pete’s sake). Which is why I became really excited when Cara from the Yummy Books blog wrote about baking a traditional lane cake, of Miss Maudie-fame from To Kill a Mockingbird. Now I know [...]
From the blogs: e-readers and ‘the long view’
Sometimes I think my stable of blogs I regularly read is getting a bit stale (though, who has time to leisurely browse for blogs anymore?). But then, I find lovely bits of wisdom that reminds me why I have a Google Reader in the first place. Rurally Screwed: E-books vs. print I’m so conditioned to [...]
Sunday morning reading: ‘The New Domestic’
For your Sunday morning reading pleasure, I beg you to check out ‘The New Domestic: A Contemporary Redefining and Legitimizing of Homemaking” from Her Circle magazine. Though I don’t plan on quitting my day job or popping out babies anytime soon, I am sort of in love with the discussion going on right now among [...]
The greatest books of all time, according to the people who write them
A friend posted this on my Facebook wall the other day — a post on Brain Pickings about the recently released The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. The concept is simple: 125 of America and Britian’s greatest authors at the moment rank the books they believe belong in the world’s top 10. Editor [...]
Imagining ‘Prep’
So, as you know, I’m reading Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. More on this later, but it’s not that awesome. In fact, the only way I’m able to redeem it is by imagining the protagonist Lee as Rory Gilmore circa seasons 1-3. Well, kinda. I mean, Rory isn’t maddenly dumb and callous like Sittenfeld’s protagonist can [...]
NPR: Unleashing the power of introverts
For your Sunday-morning reading pleasure, you really should check out this fabulous story from NPR on the recently released Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. As a proud and long-time introvert, I really loved this interview in that it made me feel … I don’t know [...]
Required reading for … everyone?
The Book Lady posted this interesting question at Book Riot a few days ago: What if we could organize some kind of Required Reading List not just for an English class or incoming college freshmen, but for the ENTIRE WORLD. And that’s why I think we should have a universal required reading list, a Required [...]
NYT: The Joy of Quiet
This essay by Pico Iyer, “The Joy of Quiet,” from the New York Times is absolutely amazing. If I made New Years resolutions, it would be to welcome more electronic peace and quiet into my life. We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because [...]
But then, I still really like new books
My haul from my library’s fall book sale: The Night Shift by Stephen King Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Netherland by Joseph O’Neill Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon Except for [...]
