TASTING LIFE TWICE

50 in 365 update

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:09:31 -0400

Sooo I know I promised to read 50 books this year, and I AM well on my way but have been lax on updating. Here are my most recent reads: #10 The Little Friend by Donna Tartt -- I listened to this as an unabridged book on tape, read by the aut...

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lazy blogging=lots of linking=hours of your life lost

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:15:21 -0400

I'm not sure why I never have anything to say anymore, on either of my blogs. I'm usually spewing some drivel or another so you might think it would end up here, but well, I have to chalk it up to laziness. At least with a list like this it pro...

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things i'm looking forward to: a list

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:27:36 -0400

Jens Lekman at the Paradise Battlestar Galactica Season 4 (argh it starts the night of Jens Lekman! TG for TiVO!) Colin Meloy at the Somerville Theater Planning a little wine tasting party SPRING at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery Spring in general!...

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50 in 365: Books 1-10

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:02:43 -0400

I haven't been posting as I go for the 50 in 365, but I have been reading. Sooo here is the backtrack for what I've read in the last two months. #1-3 The Gormenghast novels are really three books, Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone. Incr...

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heavy reading ahead

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:30:23 -0500

Lots and lots of books to read in the new year. To start me out, I'm going to be tackling: I also have the collected works of James Merrill sitting here waiting for me to crack open: Trying to knock a few more off my massive lifelong booklist....

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Perhaps She Caught a Tesseract: RIP Madeleine L’Engle

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:43:35 -0400

News of her passing came out in the NY Times yesterday. I just wrote about her a little over a week ago, about the wonderful advice she gave in the book, Madeleine L'Engle {Herself}, how inspirational she was and how I met her briefly when I wa...

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Stardust

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:53:22 -0400

In a rare move, I went to see a movie by one of my favorite authors (Neil Gaiman) although I had not yet read the book (in my defense it was originally a graphic novel and I just haven't read many books in that genre). Maybe that was okay, becaus...

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some things I love about summer

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:59:32 -0400

BBQs with friends fireflies evening thunderstorms, especially if there is heat lightning the sound of cicadas the beach (although I have yet to go this year, sigh) sangria books books and more books to read ice cream champagne grap...

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writing, libraries, booze, etc.

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:58:32 -0400

A little roundup of miscellaneous things. I have a post about the recipient of the EMC Leadership Award at the Computerworld Honors-- Laura Campbell from the Library of Congress. I have a snippet from my book about the world's first gourmand, ...

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good reads?

nobody@vox.com(Crystal) — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:36:18 -0400

Anyone use Good Reads? If so, drop me a PM with your email addy and I'll add you to my friends. It's similar to LibraryThing but more social.

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