Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Book Review: Crispin: the Cross of Lead
Crispin’s mother has just died and the steward of his village wants to kill him. Surely Crispin must have sinned against God to receive such a harsh life. Hunted down and forced to leave his village Crispin must overcome all odds if he wants to live to [...]

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Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas

Book Review: Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
Rennison, Louise. Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas.
Georgia Nicholson is at it again in this, her third volume, latest confessional novel.  She’s trying to show the Sex God just how mature she is, and also deal with Dave The Laugh who knows that she was just using [...]

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Book Review: Your Own Sylvia

Book Review: Your Own, Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill
Hemphill, Stehphanie. Your Own, Sylvia. New York: Knopf, 2007
This book is a picture of the life of famous poet, Sylvia Plath.  It is told in poetry through the eyes of people who knew Sylvia, from when she was a young child all the way up until she took [...]

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The Breakers

Picture 161, originally uploaded by Rachel Gogan.

A side view of the Breakers, one of the Newport mansions. Loved the lighting and the beautiful statues all around.

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Comps are Over

It’s been a bit longer than I would have liked since I last updated this little blog. In my defense, I was preparing to take the comprehensive exam for my MLIS degree. And that is officially done!
All I have left to finish is my classwork, including one smallish project and a LOT more [...]

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An Amazing Acapella Video
Check this out!

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Zilly Rosen of ZILLYCAKES in Buffalo, NY, builds a likeness of presidential candidate Barack Obama using 1240 cupcakes.

Zilly Rosen of ZILLYCAKES in Buffalo, NY, builds a likeness of presidential candidate Barack Obama using 1240 cupcakes., originally uploaded by shastio.

This is so cool. Take a look at the other pictures in the set to see the finished product.

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TwitterBar

TwitterBar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (originally written by Tony Farndon) that allows you to post to Twitter from the Firefox address bar. Just type your tweet in the address bar and click the TwitterBar icon to send it to Twitter. You can also post the URL of the page you're [...]

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Finished Afghan!

Finished Afghan!, originally uploaded by Rachel Gogan.

I finally finished my very first afghan tonight!
Jewel toned pretty granny square ghan! YAY!

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US Election Day

If you live in the US today’s the day!

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