These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. (As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.) Underline those that you own. Bold those that you've read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life ( Read more... )

You know your day is going to turn out alright when a kid who isn't even old enough to know how to tie his own shoes yet looks up at you and says, "Anna, you're a rock star."

Assuming your name is Anna, of course.

Little perks they never mention in the brochure :)

Kind of a side note, but just so I can keep track; went a little crazy at the Friends of the Seattle Public Library book sale. Apparently, twenty bucks there buys you hardback editions of:

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
The ( Read more... )

Walking in my fleece through the rain this afternoon, it suddenly hit me that summer was over. Months and months of sun and late nights and old friends and family and relatively few responsibilities were over, and now I was back in Seattle wearing multiple layers and trying to appreciate the rest of the afternoon even more than usual because what ( Read more... )

So, I am physically moving into the new apartment today.  This means a couple of things ( Read more... )

Important things that have happened:

• I graduated (so I am now officially an "N". The "R" part comes later)
  
  
• My family came to visit for the occasion and had (at least so they tell me) a lovely time.
  
  
• I had fresh fish at pretty much every nice fish place in downtown Seattle.
  
  
• I was assigned a date for my RN licensing boards. It is in less than two ( Read more... )

Just to be clear, we've established that I spend most of my waking hours with some pretty sick little people, right?  People that in addition to cancer or complications from prematurity are also being treated for such fun and exciting maladies as rotavirus, and vancomycin resistant enterococcous.  I change their diapers, I do head to toe ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness. I think I'm experiencing academic block (like writer's block, only horrifyingly more all-encompassing).  I have all this work that I really, honestly have to tackle this morning, but I CAN'T BRING MYSELF TO DO ANY OF IT. I can't think of any particular reason why my motivation has chosen today to go on strike--I've got my interview ( Read more... )

Only as a pediatric nurse could a person accidentally come home with two packs of lube and a Crayola crayon in her front pocket and not be all that fazed. I need to get out more.

Does anyone know of any kind of drink that can help you fall asleep at night? Tea? Perhaps with a little methadone mixed in? Because, seriously, the Children's evening staff puts crack in the communal coffee. Something must be done.