While we have been quite busy moving across country and attending the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in San Jose, it is also summer which means there is time (and therefore a requirement) to read fiction. My mom sent me three new books before we left Princeton and I just finished the last [...]

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Apparently beginning to blog again provides procrastination not only to me (and readers), but also to Adam, who spent last night and this morning fixing things for me and finally doing the ‘muses’ page, which he has been promising to do f o r e v e r. I’m guess he might say it’s not [...]

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There are books that are amazing to listen to on CD and books that are better read. Saving the World by Julia Alvarez is the latter. We listened to this book on our way out to Idaho in August and while I enjoyed the story, I had to agree with Adam that it was [...]

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Classes started this past Wednesday, which means, among other things, that my to-do list has morphed - rather than containing all the shows on our TiVo I haven’t gotten around to yet, it now is a page full of readings and administrative details. All of the sudden Calvin is more important than House and I [...]

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If you’re feeling slightly bereft from the ending of the Harry Potter series there is good news: His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Apparently this series has been around for some time now, so it’s possible you’ve already read them (in which case I’m very sorry you can’t enjoy them again for the [...]

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Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee was a surprising book for me. I read about it first in the New York Times Book Review section and probably never would have bought it myself, but added it to my wishlist so I could get it from the library some day. Adam bought it for me shortly thereafter [...]

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Part of my birthday present involved driving four hours to this bookstore in Vermont. You, like Adam, might think that four hours is a long way to drive for a bookstore, but that only means that you, like Adam, have never been to this bookstore because it is so worth four hours in the [...]

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It is finished. Sadly. Though appropriately I suppose - good things can’t go on forever or they stop being good. Right? Right.
Well, I won the bet and finished the first six Harry Potter books well before the seventh book came out. The terms of the bet turned out to be Adam cleaning up from dinner [...]

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Here are some very brief reviews of books, music and movies …
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. You should judge this book by it’s cover - at least by the cover on the hardback edition. It is a beautiful book about a family’s decision to eat locally for a full year. It is honest, funny, [...]

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Life is still incredibly busy and stressful with school and life … BUT I have found time to read (over the course of a few weeks) one of the best books I’ve read in a long time: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert You must buy this book. You could borrow a copy, but I’m [...]

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