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Book Review: Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

Posted in General, tagged , , on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wittlinger, Ellen. Parrotfish. New York: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2007.
Meet Grady McNair, a typical high school student with one important difference.  Grady used to be Angela.  Faced with the reality that the shape of her body did not match who she was inside, Angela decided to transition.  She cut her hair and chose a [...]

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Header

Posted in General, tagged , , , on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I picked out a new WordPress style today, because variety is the spice of life and I wanted to take the road less traveled and thereby abuse some more cliches.
Mostly I picked the new one because I wanted to create a customized header image.  I could do that in the first style I had, but [...]

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Book Review: The Persian Boy

Posted in General, tagged , on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
An exquisitely written book, unnerving and haunting but sweet and tender at the same time.
I found this book even better than the first (Fire From Heaven). Bagoas is an excellent narrator and through his eyes Alexander is made out to be a god and a human in the same breath. [...]

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Book Review: Rose Daughter

Posted in General, tagged , on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Book Review: Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
This book is a fairy tale. A retelling of Beauty and the Beast by a very talented wordsmith. The entire book is written in the style of a fairy tale, just as though it were being handed down through some kind of oral tradition. The flavors [...]

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Book Reviews: Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

Posted in General, tagged , on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

by Rachel Gogan
Last fall a friend of mine starting tell me that she had a “new” series that I really needed to read.  And it was about a wizard and that she loved the entire series.  I’d never known her to steer me wrong and so I asked for the first book for Christmas.  The [...]

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Beading

Posted in General, tagged , on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s good to be home, not as good to be back at work, but not too terrible either.
Tonight Katie and I have been invited to a barbecue at our friend Bethany’s house.  YUM!  I think it should be awesome.  Katie’s going to pick up a set of beading pliers for me on the way home [...]

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Too many books

Posted in General, tagged , on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Is it ever possible to have too many books?
It is when you run out of shelves as we have.  We have books stacked sideways, backways, front ways, any ways that you can think of.
So we’re having to install an extra shelf into one of our bookcases.  We still have stacks and stacks everywhere.  I keep [...]

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Binding

Posted in General, tagged , , on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today I’m working on binding classified serials. Shelves and Shelves of Acta Horticulturae (SB 13 .A183, yes I can rattle that off from memory!), shelves and shelves of orange! Oh well, at least they’re not SPIEs like they had when I worked in Engineering as a student! Thank heavens for small mercies [...]

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