Archive for August, 2005
Saturday, August 13th, 2005
Here’s a Shock
Take the quiz: “What Harry Potter Character Are You?”Hermione GrangerYou are hermione Granger extremly smart , and love to read ,and study , and the top person in your class
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Saturday, August 13th, 2005
The Inheritor
Marion Zimmer Bradley must have had some very strange experiences in the 1970s in Berkeley.
Her book, The Inheritor, is a lot like The House Between the Worlds, which I read recently and didn’t particularly like.
As with Cam, the narrator of House, Leslie is a Bay Area resident trained in Psychotherapy. Leslie is actually […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2005
Nick of Time
Anne Lindbergh is the daughter of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author of Gifts from the Sea. When I picked up Nick of Time, I thought it was by the mother.
Actually, the daughter has more of a sense of humor than her mother. Nick of Time is a funny, clever book about a group of 13 […]
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005
Amah
Laurence Yep is an extremely prolific and talented children’s/young adult author.
The first time I read something he wrote, was at ALA’s annual meeting in 2002. He’d just published Spring Pearl, part of an international girls series by the same company that does the American Girl books, dolls, and other goodies. As should be no […]
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
The House Between the Worlds
I’m not sure this book was even worth the $1.87 I paid for it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley. I loved Mists of Avalon and The Firebrand, her version of the fall of Troy from the perspective of Cassandra. And I loved the Darkover novels.
But some of her other […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Ooo Baby Baby
Yesterday, we took dinner over to my cube-neighbor Harry’s house and met his wife and their now-one-week-old baby, Max.
It made it more real for both of us. Even though Max is a big baby, weighing more than 9 lbs at birth, he’s still SO TINY and vulnerable looking. He didn’t seem to enjoy anything […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
New Toy and Silly Internet Quiz
My extremely cool new toy arrived today!
6 GB, engraved with 2005 EarthLink Adoption Challenge. So far, I’ve downloaded 3 complete episodes of This American Life.
And, my friend Amy sent on a new (to me) Silly Internet Quiz!
Directions: 1) Type "Your Name is" (including the quote marks), into Google. 2) Pick out and share your […]
