“Jill tried not to think about Katherine, but it was impossible. The picture of Katherine striding into the hospital and claiming her child pushed aside everything else.” Thus begins the back cover blurb of Private Yearnings, a book I picked up at a thrift store. Written in 1986 by Angelica Aimes, it’s the fifth in… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
I remember being a kid, sitting in the back seat of the car, with my mom whimsically singing “Jolene,” by Dolly Parton up front. Off-key, accented, her “Jolene, Jolene, don’t take my man!” was pretty much my only association with the song for years. I didn’t hear the real version until I was an adult.… Read More I cannot compete with you, Jolene
So, thanks to a winter break where I was totally indoctrinated into the Cult of Eddie Matos (you would not believe how many State Farm Insurance commercials air in a given day), I came back to work ready to tune back into AMC. (Strangely, I’ve also been itching to buy insurance…) And I gotta say,… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
I’m really bad at keeping track of what I want to read, and I always wind up wandering aimlessly around bookstores, going, “What was I looking for again?” So, here’s an effort to combat that malady right out of the gate this year. When the Stars Go Blue, by Caridad Ferrer (en route to me;… Read More The TBR pile (so far!) for 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,700 times in 2010. That’s about 23 full 747s. In… Read More 2010 in review (this is kind of cool!)
As 2010 wrapped up, I pulled Usher’s Passing, by Robert R. McCammon, off my bookshelf. I’ve probably read it a hundred times over the years, and I never stop being scared by it. At this point, I know every twist, every turn, every scene designed to make you shudder or jump…and, yet, I hide under my bedcovers,… Read More Ushering in the new year
How is it nearly 2011?! These past 12 months just seemed to fly by! Now, with year’s end upon us, it’s time for a Best and Worst post. (Here’s last year’s entry for reference.) As usual, this hinges only on things I actually experienced. Any oversights are accidental, and this is just meant to be… Read More The 2010 Wrap-Up: Best, Worst, and WTH!
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