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  • The Politicians' book club

    Election Day will be so anticlimactic, compared to last year. Be that as it may, we are preparing to vote in our local elections here in Charlottesville and people are fired up about various local issues. I like the in…

  • Book reviews

    I've been on a run of good books lately. In Pale Battalions by Paul Goddard. This novel, set mostly during World War I is chock full of dark secrets and skeletons in the family closet. One Amazon reviewer described it…

  •  A quick recap ofwhat I read over the summer: I read a lot of Southern fiction. Onebook that stands out is Joe by Larry Brown. It's the story ofdirt-poor Mississippi people. Grim, but Larry Brown can reall…

  • The way we live now

    I just finished reading Do the Windows Open, a collection of stories by Julie Hecht, who truly understands the trials of modernAmerican life: the awfulness of florescent lighting and stuffedanimals; the despair one …

  • Usually,I love reading aloud to my children. Before I even had kids, what Imost looked forward to about having kids was reading out loud to themall my favorite childhood books: Mary Poppins, Winnie thePooh, th…

  • The Virginia primary is tomorrow. Thank goodness. I wasn't entirely sure of it's date, and had been erroneously informed by Mad Scientist that it was on Super Tuesday, so last Tuesday I caused myself unnecessary vexati…

  • In which I try to read a bodice-ripper.

    Long-time readers know that I have been doggedly sticking to a book list I created for myself from Nancy Pearl's book Book Lust. I have reached the “Sex and the Single Reader” and “Romance Novels: Our Love is Here to…

  • Behold

    The $118 roast. I had a picture of it raw too, but Drama Queen deleted it from her camera. It was expensive, but it served eight people for dinner, plus we brought a plate to our friend who was stuck at work on Christ…

  • There's something kind of exciting about starting a biography of someone you've never heard of. Or, maybe my life needs a bit more excitement. I finished Mornings on Horseback, the Teddy Roosevelt bio. Who knew he coul…

  • I survived my first clinical day. I was somewhat disconcerted to come across an empty curio cabinet, instead of "Curio cabinet with Mexican display." But since I am here, writing about it, you can all deduce that I am …

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