I take Bloc Party seriously. By this I mean that they are one of the few bands I actually listen to and by listen to, I mean that I sit down and pay attention to the music and the lyrics. I like a lot of bands, but there are a scant few that [...]
[Cross-posted to GoodReads and LibraryThing.]
One of the reasons I adore Kate Atkinson so much is that her books are mysteries that you didn’t know were mysteries until the very end. She has a writing style that I have found to be fairly unique. Her prose tends to border on stream of consciousness and twisted [...]
[Cross-posted to GoodReads and LibraryThing.]
I work in a bookstore and this arrived as an ARC several days before the promotional material, and thusly the hype surrounding it, arrived. I had no idea upon grabbing it that it was to become of falls “hot new reads.” That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
The back [...]
Day in the life of Lisa, the MLIS candidate:
8:30: Up, walk the dogs, shower, and get ready for the day
9:45: Leave and take Mumsy to the doctors.
10:15: Leave doctors and grab breakfast.
11:20: Drop Mumsy off, grab stuff for the afternoon
12:00-15:00: Interview two ref librarians and then study for the remainder of the time [...]
[Maintenance: Still tweaking the blog and still a bit rough, hopefully the tweaking will be done in a day or two.]
Many moons ago, when Justin and I were dating, we got on this kick to read the entirety of the Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, of which we completed a scant few. Somewhere in [...]
I’m taking advantage of the “post in the future” feature on WordPress. When this posts at 12:01 A.M. on August 2, I’ll be at $corporate_bookstore flinging copies of the fourth and (hopefully) final book of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series into the (overly) eager hands of her “fans.” And I use that term [...]
I’ve been writing online since the mid ’90s. Sometime in 2001, when LiveJournal was still accessible only by invite codes, I snagged a code from someone (unintentionally stealing it from the person it was meant for — not my fault that the originator posted it PUBLICLY!) and started using LiveJournal. For a long time, up [...]
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Posted 17 July 2008
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30 something. Future punk-rock librarian. Grad student. Sassy. Pug owner. World traveler. Pierced. Tattooed. Tall. Music lover. Book lover. Aging, alternative hipster. Eco-conscious. Geek. Equally in love with James Bond and Jane Austen. And occassionally pretends to be God.
