This is a week to be grateful. I’m grateful for many things, including libraries. I like to visit them. I like taking my kids to them. I like writing about them. It makes me sad whenever I hear that a library has to cut staff or services or that it can’t buy the materials it… Continue reading »
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Guest-Blogging and Other Diversions
I’m over at Bookslut this week as a guest blogger. Bookslut remains one of my favorite litblogs; Jessa Crispin and her gang do great work there. If you are in the neighborhood, swing by. Feel free to drop me a line with bookish tips and lit news. This is also the week I get back… Continue reading »
The Soul of an Old Machine
I hit an unexpected and unwelcome writing hiatus this past month when my netbook stopped working. I want to say that the netbook died or that it decided to quit on me, but that would be giving it a life and a sense of being that it doesn’t deserve, much as I loved it. (And… Continue reading »
Two Months in Two Paragraphs
A quick recap of what I’ve been doing since August instead of blogging: I vacationed (or staycationed). I started Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse,” which somebody should have made me read sooner. I wrote about some neat work being done by two biologists and a physicist who are using algorithms and massive amounts of citation… Continue reading »
One-Hit Wonders
My smartphone can do many things. It can send and receive emails. It lets me keep track of my calendar appointments and keep up with the news. It’s a portal to my social networks. It will take pictures and play me music. It even makes phone calls. All of this is useful and good. (I… Continue reading »
