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Facial piercings
Generally my reactions to facial piercings vary from moderately positve (eyebrow, nose) to neutral (just about anything else). But yesterday I had a customer with a large (3 inches long, about 3/8" in diameters) ivory colored toothpick shaped thing in his nose (yes, looking much like a "bone in the nose savage") It was still bloody around the ( Read more... ) -
Books 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz. The third in the Spellman series. Isabel Spellman is undergoing court-ordered therapy (so ordered after violating a restraining order . She is officially taking a break from being a PI, but being a Spellman, you know that won’t stop Isabel from working on one or two special cases.
The Spirit Catches You and You ( Read more... ) -
Good news in the Randall household today
Alex got his acceptance letter from the University of Washington.
Yes, we are still waiting to hear from the Academy, but he is in at UW. -
Books 16, 17, 18 and 19
Henry V - William Shakespeare. This is a re-read of one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, preparatory to teaching it. Also watched the movie with Kenneth Branagh. Great play, great movie.
Village Affairs - Miss Read (Dora Saint). Another re-read. Sometimes I prefer Fairacres, sometimes I prefer Thrush Green.
Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott. She ( Read more... ) -
Books 14, 15 and 15-1/2
Postcards from Europe - Rick Steves. Rick takes us on a trip to Europe (really three different trips combined into one narrative account), visits his favorite people and places and memories of previous trips. He ponders a bit about having a hand in ruining the Euriope he loves (small, secret places are so secret, and eventually, not so small after ( Read more... ) -
The Real Book 13
Parson's House - Elizabeth Cadell
A cheerful re-read of an old favorite. 5 children, at English boarding school, unwanted by or suffering a lack of relatives, spend thier holidays at "Parson's House". Now adult,s they meet again at the adjacent cottage for a summer. Mysteries are solved, lives are changed and it is a pleasant and happy outcome ( Read more... ) -
what should have been Book 13
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perotta.
However, since I didn't finish it, it won't be. He is a good writer, and the story does draw one in. But I was not sufficiently engaged to buy into one more story with the theme of 'it is worthwhile to sacrifice everything and anything - including spiriitual values and commitment to others when you meet the ( Read more... ) -
long day of nursing, homemaking and housekeeping and some homeschooling
Molly is better - no fever and no throwing up, but still not eating. I am letting her sleep ( Read more... ) -
Book 12
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman. I didn't want to like this book. I'm opposed, on several grounds, to children's books being set in graveyards (and the ghosts were my least favorite part of Harry Potter). But I had to like it. It was an homage to The Jungle Book. It was very well written (this is my first work by Neil Gaiman). He handled the ( Read more... ) -
The next three books (9, 10, 11)
Crampton Hodnet is a re-read. This is a very early Barbara Pym and was not published until after her death. It is fun to see the early incarnations of such favorite characters is Miss Morrow and Miss Doggett and the Clevelands.
Poison Study - Maria Snyder. Saw these when I still worked at Borders. The first two came into Half Price and since I ( Read more... )