Happy Father’s Day to all of you dads–and your dads, and your kids’ dads too (if you’re a mom)! I’ve always appreciated the fact that I had two parents who read. My mother and father had different reading tastes, but they both spent much of their free time with books–and at the age of 83, my dad still does. There’s always a stack of books on his kitchen table, and he volunteers two mornings a […]
Less than 24 hours after arriving in New York City almost two weeks ago, I was on a Statue Cruises ferry with Kim, Lu, and Teresa, off to visit Ellis Island (although Kim and Lu stopped off to see the Statue at Liberty island first). My camera was with me, and it was a beautiful day out on New York Harbor. I was snapping pictures all along the way. Some photo ops are setups, and […]
I was in New York City for Book Expo America last week, but most of my best photos were taken at places that had nothing to do with that particular event. I’ve put up a bunch of them on a Pinterest board, but these are a few special favorites. New York’s a photogenic gal, isn’t she? (Edits were made and effects added using PicMonkey.) Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to […]
I’ve finished the photo editing from my trip to New York City for Book Expo America 2012 and the BEA Bloggers Conference, but haven’t put all of my thoughts and reactions into words yet, so while I’m working on pulling that together I wanted to highlight some of last week’s words from Armchair BEA Central. The third year of Armchair BEA–the first as an official partner of BEA, which allowed us to offer on-site reports […]
Graduation night for the High School @ Moorpark College, May 24 Having had dual high-school and college enrollment for the last two years, our Kate is more than ready to continue as a full-time real college students. Congrats and best wishes to her cohort in the Class of 2012, everywhere! 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 […]
(Yes, I know, it’s another “Sunday Salon on Monday,” but this is a long holiday weekend in the USA. It’s also the unofficial kick-off of summer. Why are you sitting there reading blog posts?) At this time next week, many of us will be in New York City carrying out our various agendas for Book Expo America week. For some of us, the biggest attraction is the abundance of galleys and backlist books that publishers […]
I’m writing this post on Sunday, so technically it’s not late, but it’s not posting until Monday because, as of right now, I’ve only got one other post scheduled for this week and nothing in draft, so I’m spacing my meager contributions out just a bit. Most of you know the Book Bloggers’ Conundrum well: if you’re reading a lot, you’re probably not blogging, and vice versa. I’ve been reading…and I’m current on reviews for […]
Tall Paul and I made our very first sojourn to the annual Renaissance Pleasure Faire this past weekend, and while we were there, I did something else for the first time. You might think that being one-quarter Sicilian would give me an affinity for handling knives (outside the kitchen). You would be wrong. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, seriously. And I mean the actual knife. Go sit down. I enhanced the focus on […]
Marvel’s The Avengers official movie website Action/adventure, SF/fantasy (2012) Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Mark Ruffalo Written by Joss Whedon and Zak Penn Directed by Joss Whedon Synopsis, via RottenTomatoes.com: Marvel Studios presents Marvel’s The Avengers-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an […]
…and this is its very artistic cover. (It’s actually just part of the cover–it’s wrapped in a half-jacket that the author calls a “censor band.*”) I haven’t read it yet, but Tall Paul and I went to Vroman’s Bookstore a couple of weeks ago to listen to him talk about it. He didn’t read from it–Christopher Moore never reads at a “reading”–but he had plenty to say about the book and the research that went into it. This […]
(Updated to correct a major grammar error in the post title, which will unfortunately live on in the permalink–color my face red, y’all!) When we started Armchair BEA in 2010, we had such a great time with it that all of us on the organizing team vowed that even if we had the opportunity to go to the real BEA, we’d still want to Armchair. This year, four of us–Danielle, Emily, Pam, and I–will be […]
Hey, remember back in the day before Twitter and Facebook when people used to forward e-mails around all the time? Some people still do (they’re probably your older relatives), even when it might be better if they didn’t. This post was inspired by a forwarded e-mail from my aunt, a retired New York City public-school teacher. GrammarBook.com offers the following definition of a paraprosdokian: A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part […]
