Bookpile: August: 2010
Running behind – on reading and posting – thanks to things with my mom. She’s improving, BTW, but we still have a long row to hoe. Skinny Dip – Grabbed this at my mom’s when I ran out of other things to read. It was definitely a good, solid, take-to-the-pool…
Bookpile: July 2010
Short list this month due to one huge book and what’s going on with my mom. King’s Dragon – Huge, honking classic fantasy story, the first of seven in this series that is mercifully all out so no waiting for the next one. I’m beginning to wonder if my tastes…
Bookpile: June 2010
I swear, I think I missed a book from early in the month. Just feels like I have to had read one in there before I started writing up reviews. Can’t remember though. Sigh. My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective – I made it about a third…
Set yourself up for small successes
I sew. You might have figured that out by now. And usually I sew quilts. It’s very straightforward, somewhat geometric, somewhat simple sewing. I used to make clothes. Or try to anyway. Not that my sewing wasn’t up to snuff, but my patience for the amount of alteration needed to…
Bookpile: May 2010
Deja Dead – First in the series of books that the TV show Bones is based on. I accidentally started with book two some time ago and was looking for just anything to take on a trip recently. Decided to go back to book one and see if I could…