The 2011 Book Club reading list

Here it is: January: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (Rhoda Janzen) February: Freedom (Jonathan Franzen) March: The White Queen (Philippa Gregory) April: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford) May: Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese) June: Belong to Me (Marisa de los Santos) July: Room (Emma Donoghue) August: The Thousand Autumns [...]

What to read: the extremely long version

So here’s a list, a very long list, of books worth reading. It was a Facebook meme (a meme is basically something a lot of people are doing on Facebook) that went around a few weeks ago. I copied it with the idea that 1) I can take it to book club as we choose [...]

Instituting austerity measures

The last of the pumpkin pie is in the spouse. I am grateful, as I would have had to eaten the piece for breakfast tomorrow. As I explained to someone on Twitter earlier, pumpkin is a fruit, (it has seeds, so that’s what I called it) and with a little egg for protein and wheat [...]

Just finished The Help

Not sure I’ll ever look at a French Silk pie the same way again. Just saying…

Calling all geeks

You know who you are. I am starting to connect with a literacy project that could use a low-cost reader (think Kindle and Nook) device. I figure if India can come up with a cheap laptop, surely someone can source a cheap electronic reader. Let me know if you come across anything.