In 1935, a mother wrote in to a British motherhood magazine saying this:
Can any mother help me? I live a very lonely life as I have no near neighbors. I cannot afford to buy a wireless. I adore reading, but with no library am very limited with books. I dislike needlework, though I have a [...]
Archive for the ‘Misc.’ Category
Can Any Mother Help Me?, Jenna Bailey
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, Misc., tagged Can Any Mother Help Me?, Jenna Bailey, letters, nonfiction on December 13, 2009 | 16 Comments »
A person so useless even Aaron Sorkin can’t be bothered with him
Posted in Misc., tagged oscar wilde on November 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I know this is the second time I’ve mentioned Aaron Sorkin in the past few days, but that’s only because I’m rewarding myself for applying to grad school by letting myself watch episodes of Sports Night and The West Wing. Anyway, I’m watching Sports Night and this is the dialogue that just went by:
Jeremy: This, [...]
Love
Posted in Misc., tagged Doctor Who, William Shakespeare on November 18, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Go watch “The Waters of Mars” and then come back here so we can have spoiler-filled comments about all how bleak and scary and crazy it all was, and how excited we all are that John Simm is coming back again. (I am very very excited. I would even go so far as to say [...]
Bonfire Night
Posted in Misc. on November 5, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I like a bonfire! Sadly, the American fall holiday is Halloween, which does not entail bonfires. Candy, yes. Slutty costume versions of really strange things like bumblebees, yes. But no sparklers, very few sausages, and rarely fireworks or bonfires. And no burning effigies at all, unless Bonfire Night happens to coincide with the Bama game.
Whenever [...]
I love my grandmother
Posted in Misc. on October 31, 2009 | 14 Comments »
All of them actually. I have three. Because I’m just lucky like that. And they are all fantastic in different ways. But in this case I am referring to my mother’s mother. For one thing she is beautiful – we are always inspecting her wedding pictures and things when we come to visit her, and [...]
It’s National Caps Lock Day today
Posted in Misc., tagged Lord Alfred Douglas, oscar wilde, weird holidays on October 22, 2009 | 18 Comments »
And also, by a wild coincidence? The birthday of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s erstwhile lover, creepy anti-Semitic xenophobe in his middle-ish years, and slightly more subdued jerk after that.
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS WAS NOT A VERY NICE PERSON. He had an extremely difficult life BUT NOT EVERYBODY WHO HAS A BAD CHILDHOOD TURNS OUT TO [...]
This week on BTT
Posted in Misc., tagged Booking Through Thursday on October 15, 2009 | 28 Comments »
We’re moving in a couple weeks (the first time since I was 9 years old), and I’ve been going through my library of 3000+ books, choosing the books that I could bear to part with and NOT have to pack to move. Which made me wonder…
When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do [...]
In which I reveal the obsessive side of my nature
Posted in Misc. on October 10, 2009 | 20 Comments »
This is a longstanding complaint really, but I’ve been reminded of it today by Paperback Reader’s lovely shelf of beige books. See those Salman Rushdie books? This is the source of my displeasure. Because I like Salman Rushdie quite a lot. In fact I am thinking it is probably time to read Shalimar the Clown, [...]
I am a fail book blogger
Posted in Misc., tagged Let the Right One In, vampires on September 21, 2009 | 30 Comments »
I realized yesterday that I hadn’t read any of my other books for the RIP IV Challenge, and they all came due today, and I had to renew them by an unnecessarily complicated process because the library is also being fail lately. Anyway so I grabbed Let The Right One In (why is it called [...]
