I need to talk about books again! This week I finished two books I’ve never read before, and both, I am smugly proud to say, are from the “I Have Been Meaning To Read That” shelf. Yes, I know: take a moment to reflect on how great I am. I’ll take the same moment to [...]
Also taggedI have had a rough time at work lately. I realise ten-hour days and a workload like standing in front of a puke-spewing fire hose is the norm in some workplaces, but it took a coworker’s sudden illness to establish that situation for me, and I don’t like it much (although I guess now I can say [...]
Also taggedI gotta ‘fess up — I didn’t finish all the Unfinished Business that I had hoped to before we moved house. I’d like to tell you that it was by the skin of my teeth, that it was entirely due to bad luck and that I was *that* close to finishing all the knitting projects, [...]
Also tagged Mossy Tendrils, Silver Sands, The Big Pre-Move Challenge, yarn teaches hard lessonsI was doing really well with the whole Finish-Everything-I’ve-Begun challenge. Really well! Finished my Skew socks, then I finished reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma (excellent, fascinating), then When Books Die (charming, interesting, clever and stimulating). Congratulating myself, I turned to the Reading Pile and saw that behemoth. Hoo boy. That up there is Camille [...]
Also tagged banging on, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeMoving house in a month — well, it was a month when I wrote this post, now it’s only three weeks — gives me the opportunity to self-impose one of my favourite challenges: a completely arbitrary deadline against which to stack my wits and energy. The challenge is to finish all the books I’m halfway through [...]
Also tagged banging on, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeI had hoped to finish reading Virgina Woolf’s The Waves today. I picked it up from my Mumini’s groaning bookshelf, having been suddenly and unexpectedly intoxicated with To The Lighthouse while travelling in New Zealand in January.
When I was in my undergrad studies, a berzillion years ago, I read a collection of the love [...]
So, in my last blog post, I had intended to talk a bit about how reading and writing fit in to my current obsession with nourishing, but instead I got all feverish and distracted talking about my equivalent of a raging girl-crush on Kaz Cooke’s excellent volume “Real Gorgeous”. (God, that’s such a good book. [...]
Also tagged banging onWhen I am ill and can’t eat, or when eating is painful and unpleasant, I can usually feed on words and that means a lot to me. While I’ve been sick I’ve been reading a lot, and that’s included some old friends. And this is one of the best, oldest ones and I’d like to [...]
Also tagged banging onHow do you choose the next book you want to read? The majority of mine are currently being selected from either: (a) a pile I put aside when we were putting the rest into mid-term storage (while we’re living with family) — I saw this as a good opportunity to force my hand and try [...]
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