Updating book club

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson A Short History of Women – Kate Walbert Little Bee – Chris Cleave That’s how far behind I am! Three books and three gatherings have come and gone without my giving you an update. There’s a reason: I didn’t read two of the books, and I [...]

All that butter and she lived to 91.

The youngest and I watched Julie and Julia tonight. It was my Mother’s Day gift made even more special by her watching it with me. Lots of things were refreshed in my mind. One was how charming the Julie character is in the movie when she was a whole lot more sharp-edged spitfire very fond [...]

Cindy the book club slacker

Last night was book club. Usually I show up the next day with a gushing review of whatever we’ve read. This time I have an itty-bitty confession. I didn’t read the book. The selection was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. The general consensus was the book took about 60 pages to [...]

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

I finished the book last night. This one was good, and a quick read, but don’t expect it to be easy, especially if you have dementia in your family history. I don’t. While that should have given me some comfort, it didn’t. I’ve had a couple of e-mail exchanges with my book club buddies and [...]

A fresh computer is a happy computer

Especially if it’s running Windblows. (Had to do that, I really did.) Anyway, all done. Except for the programs I need to reload, oh, and the documents, etc., I need to transfer, we’re good to go on this end. I have a love/hate problem when it comes to being my own tech weenie. On the [...]