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Things I learned while trying to get a little internet shop up and running.
I've been planning to open a shop online to sell things like t-shirts and posters for a long time, and this year, I decided it was time...
Dec 11, 20224 min read


Christmas books for Christmas gifts
I love Christmas, and I love books, and I love books about Christmas. Sometimes I give Christmas books or music as gifts and send them...
Nov 29, 20222 min read


The Disinvited Guest and Sea of Tranquility: the pandemic books are upon us
I have been wanting to re-read Station 11 for a couple of years now, but I couldn't read a pandemic book during the pandemic. It's...
Nov 19, 20224 min read


Language studies and survival skills 2: the kids are not alright
Barry, Quan- We Ride Upon Sticks Novik, Naomi- The Golden Enclaves In this edition of Language Studies and Survival Skills: The Kids Are...
Nov 11, 20222 min read


Victorian Bears and Monsters
OK, these two books don't really have much to do with each other, except: Victorian, British setting really looooong sinister, selfish...
Oct 30, 20224 min read


Halloween reads for 2022
It's time for my annual tradition of scaring myself half to death by late October! Books: King, Stephen- 'Salem's Lot Searles, John- Help...
Oct 21, 20223 min read


The Reading Life: Trying and Failing to Keep Up
Reading is my favorite thing. It's fun, it's solace, it's instruction, it's inspiration. But I'm about to write the third post in a...
Oct 8, 20223 min read


The Reading Life: the Trouble With Holds
As librarian and a life-long enthusiastic library user, I love putting holds on books at the library. You don’t have to try to catch the...
Sep 25, 20224 min read


The Joy of Re-Reading: The Silmarillion
Tolkien, JRRR: The Silmarillion The first time I read it I'm not going to summarize this book. It's a hard book to summarize; odds and...
Aug 21, 20224 min read


The Reading Life: When and why to ditch a book
When I was a kid- not just a little kid, but all through school, and probably all through college- I completed every book that I started....
Aug 13, 20225 min read

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