Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Jess Walter Audiobook read by Edoardo Ballerini Harper Perennial (March 2013), trade paper (ISBN 9780061928178 / 0061928178) Fiction, 368 pages Source: Purchased audiobook (Harper Audio (June 2012), ISBN 9780062201621; Audible ASIN B008ARPV8Q) Reason for reading: Personal Opening lines: “The dying actress arrived in his village the only way one could arrive directly–in a boat that motored into the cove, lurched past the rock jetty, and bumped against the end of the […]
Time Mid-afternoon on Saturday–trying to get a little bit ahead. I usually write this weekly installment first thing Sunday morning on my iPad, but I left the iPad at the office on Friday (not on purpose, trust me!), so I’m working on the laptop… Place …at my kitchen desk, under the ceiling fan. Have I shown you my kitchen desk yet? Here it is… Eating Just finished a snack of a two clementines and a […]
family photo courtesy of Teresa Lantos DeGagne (I call this “The Annual Alzheimer’s Post” because, with minor changes, it goes up around this time every year, to accompany the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Details on the 2013 Walk, and my team’s fundraising link, are below.) On October 8, 1999, my mother, Mary Ann Corsino Lantos, passed away. A New York City native and, after a nine-year detour to southwestern Connecticut, a resident of St. […]
…quiet as a cemetary. New England is full of these picturesque little resting places. A small cemetery just outside New London, New Hampshire (June 2013) An InLinkz Link-up Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
Time: Sunday morning, in 8 o’clock hour Place: The “Girl-Loft” (If Tall Paul gets a “Man-Cave,” I get a “Girl-Loft”), in the new house. We turned in the keys to the old place yesterday, and are officially All Moved In to the new one, although we’re still unpacking and arranging. Eating and drinking: Water only right now, but after I’m done writing this, I’ll be meeting my sister for Sunday coffee and breakfast. (We usually […]
