Hello you all, we had another heat wave, last week, I am just now, recovering. ouf, I hate the hot, humid, sweaty heat. It’s over now, it’s gorgeous, hot, not sticky, Summer, end of Summer. I’ve been reading, again, what a relief:-) got all the way through, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements Of Propaganda, by […]
Read morePutting an end to a reading drought
Well, it’s a new year, and, I need to get back into, creative, and, thinking, mode. I have, lots of pre-occupations, but, sitting around in a daze, in front of the computer, distractedly gazing at, face book, isn’t going to help, or make things, magically fall into place, reading won’t either, but, it will keep […]
Read moreHenry James is good for your attention span
Winner GLBT Category The Fall has been here, for a few weeks, now, my favourite season, and, I have spent a good part of it, locked up, in the apartment, sick as a dog. All kinds of competing symptoms, cough, sneezing, congestion, headache, all of it, making me into a mental case. Can’t work, can’t […]
Read moreOn reading Henry James
Winner GLBT category I find lately, that I read, slower, that I reflect on what I read, more, and, just as eating slower, improves, my old ass digestion, so does, reading slow, improve the experience, the digestion, of, thought. I have been reading Henry James, The American, which, is not one of his best known […]
Read moreOn losing one’s ‘sounding board’ and, the voices in your head
Winner GLBT category. Good morning, girls. I hope all is well, in your spot in the universe. I’m doing ok, the Summer is moving along, there have been good parts. I have spent some quality time, with my mom, we’ve had a few Sunday outings, the movies, the museum, a few special lunches. The month […]
Read moreThe ‘work in progress’ is …progressing and some reading thoughts
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Winner in the GLBT category Hello you all, rainy day here, in my beautiful ugly. Please don’t think, I’m complaining, I’m not, give me rain over, sticky dank heat, any day. My work in progress, is progressing, more and more notes, adding up, a memory stick full of pictures, hell, I even created a twitter […]
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Winner 2013 LGBT category I have just finished, Jeannette Winterson’s, A must read. I finished it and wished, I hadn’t, I wanted it to go, on. Now I want to share it, with as many people as possible. It’s that kind of book. I have loved Winterson’s books, for many years. She has taken me […]
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Good morning you all. I’ve been pretty busy, the cold is also, back, brrr, yuck. To which I say, ‘It’s February genius, what do you expect!” I have been juggling books all week, reading, Study In Scarlet, before bed, a few pages, every day of Susan Sontag’s On Photography, which I am particularly, interested in, […]
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Good morning, you all. It’s cold again, after a slight warm spell, which was good for the spirit, and, the old body, we are back to the deep freeze. This cold spell seems to be, in the same category, as what, began the year, grrr get out the fleece, and fake fur, time to wear […]
Read moreIt’s snowing…. books
It’s snowing, again, grrr, oh well, ’tis the season, and we wouldn’t want, to not, have a white Christmas, would we, ??? oh well, it’s perty, that’s something, right? Good time, to read, and, I have tons, of good things, to read, some light stuff, some deep stuff, and, some original, and, new…ish stuff. I […]
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