Left: Wabaunsee County, KS prairie plantHooray for blogs that require absolutely no physical exertion whatsoever! And so appropriate, as I've been sitting on my, ah, laurels all day long here at the office. A slow day at the office is like a million years unless you have something inspiring or troubling to ponder. I suppose it's fortunate that I have nothing much to fret about. As the Chinese curse went, "may you live in interesting times." Now where'd this darned underline come from? Whatever. I have a sequence of photos from our recent monarch-rearing that I hope to share with you all soon. Maybe we'll get the typing thing down first.
Garden: 6 cukes, 3 tomatoes. First sweet corn last night. Mmmm!
Reading: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Cheers
C.
8 comments:
Kingsolver is a very good author. Aimee is a fan and I've read "Pigs in Heaven" and "Holding the Line" (I know I'm not designating these as books correctly, but I don't know HOW to get the underline - maybe we can trade notes.) Both are good books. I recomend a book I read this weekend by Dorthy Allison called "Bastard out of Carolina" and I am re-reading "Dry" by Augusten Burroughs (which I know is currently a trendy pick, and I am anything but trendy.)
cara - I pretty much don't choose any books for myself so any suggestions are welcome.
dg
Nice specimen, probably false indigo(wild blue indigo). Member of the bean family...wild lupine or bluebonnet...look forward to more pix
Augusten Burroughs! What a trendy... just kidding. I tend to read whatever appeals to me at the time, and go through phases. This is my first Kingsolver book, so I'm excited to read more.
Have you read David Sedaris? Not to be stereotypical of "funny gay authors"... but he is truly hilarious and a fine writer.
As Amy is a librarian, she may have seen the fluff piece on librarians in the New York Times the other day about how "hip and cool" we are. Of course, they're interviews NYC librarians so hip and cool is a requirement. But I must say, it is a fun profession and I hope she enjoys it too.
"interviewing", I mean
I'll have to give Sedaris another shot. I have read "Naked" and "Me talk pretty one day" but wasn't thrilled. That was a couple of years ago, so we'll see. Thanks for the info.
I really enjoyed Me Talk Pretty because I studied French in school and could identify with the absurd, childlike process of trying to speak in a foreign language. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" etc. Some more than others. I have heard Dorothy Allison is good but have not read her. Do you read more fiction or nonfiction?
mostly i read fiction. i'm usually drawn to the classics and have tried to work my way through a large percentage of a couple "100 best novels" lists, but aimee's influence (she brings home the books) has started me on the path of more contemporary literature.
It's pretty funny. there is actually a Doroty Allison "Bastards" refernce in "DRY". I didn't catch it in the previous reading, because i hadn't read Allison yet.
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