Sometimes, Bad Can Be Good
This past week He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog has been passing a bunch of kidney stones. He already has a broken ankle. So, living with him has been a little bit like living with one of those monkeys at the zoo. You know, the ones who look all cute and cuddly […]
Keeper Shelf Monday: Laini Taylor
The thing I think is so cool about the author of today’s book for Keeper Shelf Monday is that she started out as an artist making her own line of cool greeting cards (something I’ve always dreamed of doing!). And then she got a got book published! Plus, she has pink hair! How cool is […]
Picture Books by Meg!
Let’s just concede that 2010 hasn’t gotten off to a very propitious start. Haiti. Authors dying left and right. The entire world (NBC, the Internet, Wall Street, what have you) appearing to have gone insane. My husband still being on crutches. But it isn’t all bad, you guys. Because it’s just been reported that Madonna […]
Robert B Parker
Robert B Parker, one of my favorite writers and creator of the Spenser series, just passed away (rumor has it at his desk, writing) at age 77. If you’re a Spenser fan, you know why I’m so bummed about that. No more Spenser, Hawk, and Susan to look forward to.
Making Fetch Happen
I’m so out of the loop trying to finish my next Allie book, I actually can’t keep track of anything anymore! Like, I didn’t even realize this book was out yet. But it is!
God
When I was a kid, and things like this horrible earthquake in Haiti would happen, I would get really mad at God. Because I used to think God was a kindly old man with a long white beard who lived up in heaven (just like they told us in Sunday school), and who, like me […]
Keeper Shelf Monday
I know you still have money leftover from all those gift certificates you got for Christmas/Hanukkah. Or maybe—like me—you have a winter birthday, and are going to be getting even MORE gift certificates soon (hint). In any case, here’s a book that you’ll want to add to your keeper shelf (in between the Agatha Christies, […]
Precious, District 9, and Alice, I Have Been
It’s cold. Seriously, even the iguanas here in Florida are going into hibernation and falling out of the palms trees onto unsuspecting people’s heads. (OK, it’s not really that cold in Key West. But tomorrow it’s supposed to be going down into the 40s at night!) Obviously, since many Floridians don’t even have heat, during […]
One Minute Movie Reviews
What did you do during this past holiday weekend? Go to the movies? Me, too! I haven’t seen Avatar yet because there aren’t any 3-D screens in my area, and all my friends who’ve seen it say you have to see Avatar in 3-D (on an Imax screen). But I DID see the following: