February 2012
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Mom watches The Hunger Games trailer
Mom (upon seeing Rue): Oh, why did she have to be so small and cute?!
Me: She's only supposed to be twelve.
Mom: But why couldn't she have been ugly?!
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Victory continues!
Mom finished Catching Fire this morning, and seems determined to finish Mockingjay by day’s end. She’s loving every minute of it!
haunted-palace:
My mom is now reading The Hunger Games. My work here is done.
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Victory
My mom is now reading The Hunger Games. My work here is done.
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Goodreads | The Wolves Chronicles series by Joan... →
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Lemony Snicket to Return in 4-Book Series -... →
Hooray!
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Just saw extended trailer for The Hunger Games during the Super Bowl pre-game show. Ah—it brought tears to my eyes!
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January 2012
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Addicted to Downton Abbey Reading List →
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The vortex of hell-born dreams
– My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to An American Tragedy
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The classics are not irrelevant. They offer insight into our shared past- they...
– Riot Response: In Defense of the Classics (via bookriot)
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Personal book cataloging
I’m looking for recommendations for book cataloging software, for personal use. I have an iMac, and a Windows laptop, so the system doesn’t matter.
I’ve looked at Delicious Library (App Store link), and I really like the fact that it will catalog everything. Plus its interface is shiny, and, I admit, I like shiny.
Bonus for my work and school: I can export bibliographies in APA...
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Goodreads | Best Picture Books For Therapy →
my votes
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In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and...
– Edgar Allan Poe (on his birthday)
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Goodreads | Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Cleary →
A spunky little girl works out what it means to be her, and makes her own path as best she can. One of my favorite female literary characters.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
– MLK (via discoverynews)
—-> A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes and The Complete... →
Authorized edition, by the Doyle estate, and only .99 for the Kindle!
It’s mine, o, it’s mine.
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Obituary: William Roll
William G. Roll, one of the pioneers of the serious study of parapsychology, died this morning.
I highly recommend his work The Poltergeist, and also his book (written with Valerie Storey) Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder—The Curious Story of Tina Resch, which covers one of the most unusual cases he ever investigated.