Posts Tagged ‘ Books I Wrote ’

Diane Gilleland has been writing and podcasting (with Paul over at Dudecraft) about "free" this week, and as always I've been reading and listening with giddy excitement because she tackles such big ideas so simply and eloquently. In her post today over at Make & Meaning, she ends with a point that's made all the time...
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It's a busy heatwavy week over here. As the dog alternates between sleeping and panting and I sit very slowly wishing I could do the same (everything is done very slowly during a heatwave, see), I marvel a bit about how much I'm getting done. First, here's a link to the interview I did with...
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So the first four months of my yearlong amorphous adventure have passed and I thought I'd explore what I did with myself, what I'd planned to do with myself, what I'm doing now and what I might do next. If you're unfamiliar with all this, I'll sum up: I quit my job at the end...
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Image via Wikipedia I had two favourite books when I was a young child. One became the seed of my desperate need to see absurdity in every day life (The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, by Dr. Seuss), and the other led me to befriend monsters and explore my imagination without bounds, knowing that...
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Nothing like going into a new year with a heaping pile of books to read. After considering high-school reads I want to revisit, I stumbled upon the 9 Books for 2009 challenge to work through books in your TBR (to be read) stack. Actually, it was very useful to even gather together a comprehensive...
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I've recently started to get to know Linda Permann, who's delightfully crafty, and is full-tilt raising funds to help her brother-in-law as he battles kidney cancer and can't work. I've donated a copy each of Get Hooked Again and Crochet Me to the cause; all proceeds will go to Jasenn and his family. I'll sign...
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I read The Andromeda Strain when I was around thirteen years old. I grabbed my dad's yellowed copy off his towering shelves of sci-fi and pretty much devoured it. It might be the book that sparked my lifelong fascination with apocalyptic fiction. For a couple of years I've been meaning to reread it with...
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I had a great chat with Marly about the fall issue of IC last week, which should go out in her next podcast. Massive kudos to Apple and Google for seeing the issue of gay marriage for what it is: a question of civil rights. Speaking of Apple, I'm digging iTunes's Genius. It's playlist-making for the...
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Last night our book club discussed Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje. I finished the book a few weeks ago and spent the time since anticipating the discussion. I had high hopes—I needed to figure out what to think about the book and I wasn't getting anywhere on my own. Although I won't give story spoilers, the...
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I spent several hours yesterday trying to find a WordPress plugin that will automatically generate a daily digest of stuff I post on Tumblr. It might be that Tumblr is too new. Dunno. Anyway, I found one plugin that will auto-generate a daily digest, but the lines in the digest didn't actually link to...
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