Here's the the list of what I read in 2014. Mostly crap, I'm disappointed to say, and not entirely my fault, since I didn't always pick worn-out serials.

I can recommend J.K. Rowling's new series, and my two favorite stand-alones were Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano.

I've been dormant on LJ for so long I feel the need to introduce myself anew. I started to copy an alphabet meme from microbie, but we agreed that most memes aren't written by or for people like usHere's what I'm like, according to my own alphabet questionnaire ( Read more... )

I read 65 books last year--at least, that is the number I finished. I read almost exclusively on the train now, but if I have to experience a waiting room, I try to read there too. I read a manga series, so that inflated the number. Those were the books I read at home instead of out in public. When I read graphic novels in public, I always get ( Read more... )

I saw Gabrielle Giffords in DC yesterday. She looks great. Her voice was soft and scratchy, but her hair has grown back in and her face has filled back out. Her astronaut husband and daughters were with her. The person leading them around was talking, so I didn't say anything, but I gave her a thumbs-up and she smiled.

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Every year at this time, Christmas to New Year's, I take a break from email and the rest of the interweb while I play with kids and go to bed early every night. I've had a good break. I went to the playground a couple of times. It was gorgeous today. I've played hundreds of rounds of card and board games. I got in the tent ( Read more... )

Why does LJ look so weird suddenly? (And not just because I'm on it.) It looks like new Gmail happened to it.

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I'm at home by myself and saying 'No' out loud. Instead of reading the newspaper, I flipped through the pages, saying 'No' to every article, every ad, every remembrance. Even the comics had something to say no to. I keep switching off the radio with 'No.' At the market I walked into a 'where I was' round robin conversation and had to walk away ( Read more... )

I went looking for a little basket today to put some odds and ends in, and I remembered that there was a basket under the bed in my guestroom/office. I've lived in my house for about two years now, and apparently I've never missed any of this stuff, but this basket used to be on a bedside shelf in my old apartment, where I evidently put stuff down ( Read more... )