Category: Books

  • Nourishing Traditions (hardback)

    I just added a new link to my sidebar “Links” area … Nourishing Traditions. Why? It’s a great book that I’ve had a long time (well, since it was published in the late 90’s). It’s a cookbook and more. I found today, while researching something on Migraines that I read in NT this afternoon, that…

  • Middle of the Night Stuff

    I woke up at 3:30am –being pregnant –this is happening a lot, I sleep a few hours and then … (of course, normal times I, often enough, awake during the night, being an NT, a Night Owl, INTP, with my mind going a mile a minute, but being pregnant for so long now, it’s a…

  • My Bookpile Contest Entry

    Library Thing’s Bookpile Contest A note about this photo: I was on the LibraryThing blog and read the post there about the contest. So I briefly thought about it, read the contest “rules” aloud to my husband, while he didn’t listen very closely, then immediately got up from my computer seat and went to my…

  • Leave Her to Heaven

    I finally got to go to the used bookstore that’s just a few-ish miles away. We did pick up a few things, but I didn’t find all I was looking for. One book that I did find though, which I had never looked for, is Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams, published in…

  • Library Thing

    See my previous post about my eye, UGH, read the comments to see how it was resolved. 🙂 This post is about Library Thing. I signed up on 9-11-2005. I wasn’t sure how much I’d like it, since I’ve wanted a bar-code scanner and software for several years now, since I first read about it…

  • Eldest Review

    Eldest My rating: 5 out of 5 Eldest is the second book in the Inheritance Trilogy. It was released just this past month. We got a box set of this new book along with the first book Eragon. I read Eragon and couldn’t wait to start on Eldest. I did wait a bit, not long.…

  • Eragon Character Quiz

    You are most like SAPHIRA Like the majestic dragon, Saphira, you are brave and ferocious in battle but also deep in ancient wisdom. You think before flying headfirst into battle. You prefer the solitude of the wilderness to the populated cities of Alagaësia. WHICH ERAGON CHARACTER ARE YOU MOST LIKE? The quiz is fairly meaningless…

  • Eragon

    Speaking of good books, as in the last post, the Inheritance Trilogy has this site linked … which looks good, and we are very excited about it, even though we’ve not read the books yet, but since I’m writing about it all today, and my wireless keyboard is going nuts, not working right: I declare…

  • Society of Books

    I posted this quoted material on Carmon’s site I got a “Spam Karma” warning: two links, and a different email address, no doubt, pegged me for a spammer :veryshocked: :LOL: What book would you use to escape? I prefer to curl up with any of the Cordwainer Smith stories … here is a link to…

  • July sure went by fast

    I know time goes fast when you are having fun, but what if it goes by fast when you are definitely NOT having fun? 🙂 Time has flown for me the last few years, and this last month, July 2005, has been quite the fastest, by far, in my estimation of historical events in my…

  • Book Meme: What’s nearest you

    Found this Book Meme out on ‘the web’ 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually…

  • Many Things in One Post

    This is my “many things in one post” post. Weather, books, hens, wild birds, etc. The weather has turned mild again. Yesterday it was warm enough not to need a fire upon waking. Last night was warm too. It’s currently in the mid-50’s, and that’s without the sun’s aiding. It’s been mostly cloudy, morelike “light…

  • Early Book Memories

    I posted this on Carmon’s site today as a comment, and figured I should put it on my own site as a full entry! 🙂 So here it is: I remember from very early childhood “The Color Kittens” it really drew me in, as did also “The Poky Little Puppy”. I loved them both. In…

  • Book Meme

    Our library is not all out of boxes, so I couldn’t do total checking, but by all accounts I do believe I have little of what Carmon (she who went before me book-meme-wise) did write down. Here’s how it works. Copy the list, then remove from it the names of any authors not in your…

  • LoTR Return of the King – Extended

    It comes out today. The final installment, the REAL movie of Return of the King. 🙂 Oh, the theatrical one was good, but this one will be much better. It’s the way of the good movies. They save the good stuff for the DVD, leave it on the cutting floor for the theatres. It ensures…

  • Vintage Science Fiction Mags

    I received my Galaxy magazine in the mail today, and my Worlds Of IF magazine on Saturday. [I got them off of eBay recently] Galaxy Oct 1962 with “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell” by Cordwainer Smith as the cover story. Worlds Of IF May 1964 with “The Store of Heart’s Desires” by Cordwainer Smith as…

  • Sci-Fi

    I’ve liked some Science Fiction since I can remember, but haven’t ever delved deep into it on my own, only sometimes finding something new every so often, and clinging to it. I am a SF lover, just constrained by my own ignorance of what’s out there. I like Cordwainer Smith, and tried to find whatever…

  • The Grail

    I’m nearly done with the Pendragon series. These books are interesting. The Arthur legend from a Christian viewpoint. The last book, The Grail, is getting a bit weirdo to me, but that’s actually part of the whole series, that The Grail is such an important element of Christianity. I’ll reserve total judgement on this once…