A friend of mine recently posted: “Real life happened and it has made me boring. I just realized right now that I have no fandoms. …
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Fear of flying
I started on two books this week: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lonesome Dove. Two books out of a bunch I asked …
Fictionesque
“…But you know married women have never much time for writing.”– Lydia Wickham (nee Bennet), Pride and Prejudice It’s funny how true this rings. Lydia …
Pause
I thought I’d be nicely cruising along for the rest of the second trimester when – just as I was about to enter my 23rd …
Lost Cat
I’ll have to admit I don’t read a lot of books – just a few over and over again. I rarely make new book acquaintances, …
Lately
I’ve been mulling over a few events these past couple of weeks that I feel I should record somewhere or they’ll be lost in the …
Fear of Boredom
We have reason to be afraid of boredom. In Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game, it was boredom that drove General Zaroff to hunt men …
Brains and Snail Mail
Jeffrey McDaniels says it best in The Wild Cousin of Potpourri: …I have to confess, my salaciouslittle Einstein, sometimes when your head’s turned, I sneak …
It is a truth universally acknowledged
that Pride and Prejudice will always be my standard of comparison for all stories making use of the girl-can’t-stand-boy (or girl)/unresolved tension trope (sexual or …
What price love?
Because someone went all nostalgic today, I’m reposting this: “We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s …