December 2010
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books read in 2010
It’s long, and probably overly detailed. (Also, I didn’t bother to put authors if I didn’t know it off the top of my head. So there.) In Summary Firsts [and lasts, all for YA lit]: manga: Nightschool graphic novel: Stitches biography of a model: Hungry Trends: Africa: First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria;The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency; Scribbling the Cat; Nine...
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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on balance
This morning, I woke up to the snow that’s a week old to everyone else but me, to a sweet snarfly dog, to the comforts of my own little house. Of course, I also put my thumb through an overripe winter squash, struggled to find a clean shirt, and bemoaned the tufts of dog hair festooning that little house. On balance, though, it is a very fine thing to be home.
Dec 30th
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Dec 25th
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“I view it as a wake up call to your life when you’re driving around your...”
– She Sells Seashels by the Seashore:  Oh, Shelby, college roommate of mine, you speak the truth. From one underachieving part-time clerical worker to another. The twenties are weird.
Dec 22nd
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“PS: Hope John’s trip home wasn’t too grueling and that he’ll...”
– Momma Grimm {The somnolent powers of the Grimm home are legendary.}
Dec 22nd
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“I have a condition my husband and I call ‘crazy brain.’ It’s...”
– Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines (Yes to this, and to the subsequent frantic chain of thought she describes, and to most of the book, actually.)
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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"A Spiritual Defense of Gifts" →
“But I can only imagine one way for Christmas morning to become a time of celebrating the material world and humbly receiving from one another. We would have to live more simply for the other 364 days of the year.”
Dec 18th
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“For us the Church is the body of Christ, Christ continued in time, and as such a...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via nickburton)
Dec 15th
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Listen“In the Bleak Midwinter,” Beth Whitney
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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yesterday i found a cracked raw egg in my kitchen...
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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materials checked out on a gray, icy Friday before...
Gosford Park Everybody’s Fine (I know! But J’s going to Korea and I want to prepared with plenty of trash on hand to enjoy in his absence.) Home, Marilynne Robinson (audio CDs to listen to on the bus to and from work so I don’t get terribly, terribly motion sick) A World Lost, Wendell Berry Foxfire 12 Crafting a Meaningful Home, Meg Mateo Ilasco Midway through a head cold,...
Dec 10th
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A hateful last assignment like this one calls for hitting the petfinder pretty hard.
Dec 9th
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Walked to the corner grocery today to pick up some chicken, before heading to the library, and neatly sidestepped sidewalk puke. (This has happened before, and once, early one morning in Oxford, my flatmates and I skirted a man who continued to walk upright as he vomited all over the sidewalk.) It occurred to me that there are two kinds of lives, the one where you can reasonably expect to...
Dec 3rd
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“In the same way, good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking...”
– N.T. Wright, After You Believe
Dec 2nd
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