Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment BEST BOOK I EVER READ!!!
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
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Ferrets do not make good gardeners. But what they lack in skill they more than make up for in enthusiasm. Sigh ( Read more... )

We've got a female indigo bunting hanging around the feeder. Haven't seen a male yet, so she might get tempted away. It'd be nifty to have a nesting pair around ( Read more... )

We had one of those horrible games where one person draws all consonants and the other draws all vowels. Near the end, it was 265-298, both of us hoping to salvage at least 300, yet nowhere near our goal of 700 points combined ( Read more... )

Last week, we got a great tip from quaintessimal about fresh turmeric root available locally for cheap. Great, wonderful, happy dyeing days ahead and all that. We bought 2.5 lbs ( Read more... )

"BOSTON - A student touring Fenway Park was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from a girl's scalp Thursday ( Read more... )

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Last Thursday, I did the stupidest thing a computer user could ever do. Okay, apart from the cop who downloaded kiddie porn on his departmental computer ( Read more... )

I like being a grown-up married to a sometimes-little-girl. If I want to have strawberry blintzes for dinner at 9:00 at night, then by gum, I get out the crepe-maker and mix up batter while Dulci starts slicing strawberries.

Life's fun.