Two things have recently come to my attention.

1) I have too many books. As in, I really, really don't have space for them all in my house. Which leads me to the conclusion that I need a new, larger house, with its own built-in library with shelves up to the ceiling and a rolling ladder like Beauty and the Beast . . . but that's another story. In ( Read more... )

Now that spring--in the form of birds chirping at my windows, plants beginning to show their heads in my garden, and my allergies making themselves known in unpleasant ways--appears to be here, I thought I'd mention some of the things I'm looking forward to most this season.

Books:


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I have a Tumblr!

It's new, so there's not much there yet, but there will be. (Insert evil laugh here.)

Seriously, though, join me there. I'll be posting pics of the dogs, my spring garden, knitting projects, books--all sorts of things, basically. And there's an "Ask Me" section, so if you have burning questions about what Kiernan would do in a ( Read more... )

This week I'll be at the Association of Writers and Writing Program's annual conference (AWP) in Chicago. The conference is huge one--they actually had to cancel late registration this year because 10,000 people have already signed up. (Which is pretty amazing, given that the first AWP I went to in Kansas City in 2000 had only a few thousand people ( Read more... )

So for the last two years I've been learning to knit. And in the last two years, I've managed to complete . . . one and a half projects.

Seriously, I think I may be the slowest knitter in existence. Here's my first post about my knitting, where you can see the scarf I made as my first project and one half of the front of the ruana I was (and am ( Read more... )

In my best books of 2011 post, I mentioned several books that I hadn't actually had the time to do a full rec post on. So, to catch up at least a little. . . .


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I started watching the TV show Glee soon after it came out, and it didn’t take long before I was hooked. I gathered with friends to watch each new episode, downloaded music, bought the DVDs, groaned and laughed over the exploits of Sue Sylvester, Will Schuester, and the kids of the McKinley High School Glee Club. Did it grab my geek heart that way ( Read more... )

Because work started back up last week and I'm trying to revise/reorganize six chapters that are resisting with all their might, something silly:


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Being a fairly type-A person, I have a particular love for organizing and list-making. And being a reader and writer, I have a particular love for brandishing the books that I like at other people and telling them that they should read them right now. And so you get:

Eilis’ Annual Reading Report and Best Books of 2011

I read a total of 103 books in ( Read more... )

One of the things I like best about Christmas is the traditions. Since Christmas is nearly upon us, I thought I'd share a few of the traditions that I like best.

The Books. We had a large collection of Christmas picture books when I was a kid. I loved unpacking them every year, and I actually apologized to them (and to my Christmas stuffed animals) ( Read more... )