Quick! It’s an emergency! You just got an urgent call about a family emergency and had to rush to the airport with barely time to grab your wallet and your passport. But now, you’re stuck at the airport with nothing to read. What do you do??
And, no, you did NOT have time to grab your [...]

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Synopsis:
The world has moved on, thanks to climate change, a worldwide oil shortage, and population devastation from superbugs, and in one small corner of New York State, the world is being rebuilt by hand.
Review:
Anyone who spends much time with me will eventually learn that I am obsessed with The Long Emergency, one of World Made [...]

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Picked this up from Becky:
The rules: Top twenty favourite books in no particular order. Don’t think about it for too long. Take twenty minutes only to compile your list. Bold the ones you’ve read, or reread, since you’ve started blogging. Include novels, non fiction and plays.
1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte [...]

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I promise I used to have an attention span.
And then I had a baby.
I had all these high hopes of doing tons of reading while nursing. But I’m not, thanks to the internet. The day my daughter was born I set my laptop on the radiator cover right next to my [...]

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I picked up this library meme from So Many Books. Of course, Library Lovers month ended on Friday but my heart is filled with library love year round, so get over it.
How do you plan on celebrating Library Lovers month?
I did nothing to celebrate. It’s all I can do to get a daily [...]

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All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or hardcovers? And why?
I prefer trade edition paperbacks, for the most part, because I do a lot of my reading on the subway, and hardcovers get really heavy and unwieldy. [...]

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As created by Eva, who will enter you in a drawing if you leave a comment on her post. Thanks for the, Sheila! I’m tagging Alissa, Terri, Megan, Rhinoa, and Ian–or Ian’s dad
Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?
Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. I [...]

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Two mini-obsessions of mine documented in one video:

HT: Jim Emerson
And by the way, I’ve totally mastered reading while breastfeeding. Blogging is another thing altogether–long posts have to wait for naptime, because I have limited patoence with typing one-handed.
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I have a year-end wrap up at House Next Door.
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At first blush, Amazon’s Kindle is ideal for someone in my situation. As a nursing mother of a tiny infant, I’ve got plenty of time to read, but the logistics of holding a book while holding Bean are posing quite a challenge. I can’t always get the perfect reading angle, and if I [...]

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