Woke up to find the house surrounded in fog. At first I didn’t notice because the rain was pattering on the sky light and it was rather dark. Once I got up and looked out there was fog, the thin grey blanket type over, around, and cloaking everything. It made for the kind of grey, […]
Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Arthur A. Levine Books, AN Imprint of Scholastic Books. ISBN: 978-0-545-15761-2, hardcover. $16.99 US/$19.99 CAN. Stick Man is a delightful story about a stick man who lives with his stick wife and children in a very nice tree house. He goes out to jog and spends […]
The Christmas Magic by Lauren Thompson is a simple story of Santa Claus who lives alone in the woods. As the Christmas holiday approaches he can feel the magic and opens his workshop and prepares a bag of toys for the children listed in his book. He polishes the sleigh and the bells and gets […]
Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775 and died in 1817. She was 41 when she died. During her life she wrote several novels that live in the hearts of her many readers. The novels (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibilities, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Lady Susan) have been in print almost […]
Postscript from Pemberly is book seven of the Pemberley Chronicles. Unfortunately, I haven’t read any of the previous six books. Well, that’s not entirely true. I did read the “look inside” of the first book a while back and put it on my wish list on Amazon; but with the height of my TBR pile…. […]
Haven’t posted lately — still down with the flu. The cough has gone from the polite heh heh sound to a racking deep thing that takes on a life of its own. I swear any minute I expect to either cough up my lung, my toes, or some dwarf or balrog. I’ve pulled muscles coughing […]
It has rained all day today. It seems like it’s rained more than not lately. Matches my mood though since I’ve been headachy and out of sorts — maybe flu maybe not. Hyperion though definitely has the flu but is back to work (out of sick time). Luckily the Thanksgiving holiday is coming up so […]
This isn’t really new information for many people but I thought in view of this new YouTube video that others might like to see what goes on in the U.S. Library of Congress to preserve our written history. I visited the Library of Congress shortly after the Reading Room and other parts of the library […]