The three of us got a total of almost five consecutive hours of sleep last night, which makes this post somewhat possible. Molly is currently asleep again (how many hours are babies supposed to be awake anyway?) but will *hopefully* do the five hour thing again sometime soon. (I should also say that prior to that she was awake from 2 to 5am so it ( Read more... )

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I have news. But I can't tell you for at least a little while longer. But I will... soon.

Instead, the topic of this post is "what I am reading."

I've had a mystery binge as of late. Specifically mysteries written before I was born. Specifically the Elizabeth Peters' mysteries.

I read her first Amelia Peabody Crocodile on the Sandbank, about ( Read more... )

The book Wintergirls is out now. Here's an interview with author Laurie Halse Anderson (halseanderson).

If you have a chance, I highly recommend reading this. It's beautiful and wonderful and tragic and heartbreaking. I think it's one of the rare novels that changes the reader as you move through it.

I haven't read Thirteen Reasons Why yet so I'm not quite sure what it's about, but it's on the NYT bestsellers list, again. And I thought it would be too much for my YA section. Silly me. Now it looks like I'm adding it to my list of stuff that I should have read when I first saw it. And to think I had an ARC of this one.

This is an interesting ( Read more... )

So Valentine's Day was last Saturday. Not really a momentous occasion in my house. Tom made dinner and it bought me flowers, but not the most amazing one we've ever had. But that doesn't really matter for the point of this post ( Read more... )

-- If you ever wanted to know how Scratch and Sniff worked, go here. Mental Floss explains the how and why. I never knew that it came out of making copies.

-- So, like just about everyone, I'm on Facebook. Why does this not surprise me?

Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by ( Read more... )

So I already said I wanted to read about 100 books this year. I came close last year so we'll see how much closer I can get.

Out of all the "these are the books you must read"- lists, Jezebel's 75 books every woman should read is the only one where I've made a decent dent. I've read 10-11 of the proposed 75. I say 10-11 because there are a couple ( Read more... )

Happy New Year!

So far my new year has consisted of hanging around with my husband and calling my mechanic (yet again). Here's hoping 2009 is way better than 2008.

One of my 2008 New Years resolutions was to read 100 books during the year. I think I hit somewhat about 80. Reviews were posted over at LibraryThing and Goodreads if you're interested. They're all very short and nothing special. One of my 2009 resolutions is to change that and post longer "reviews" most likely here. But we'll see how that works ( Read more... )