Short Saturday: Books To Go

by | Aug 3, 2013 | Miscellany, The Arts & Media

In case you haven’t figured this out, I love books. 🙂 I’ve been accumulating them my whole life—which makes some of them pretty old, though not particularly valuable. I’m really fascinated by old books. (And books about books. Another post, another time.) Park me in...

Quitting While You’re Ahead

by | Feb 18, 2013 | Miscellany

I took a vacation last year, a long one, involving hours and hours on an airplane and days and days during which I needed neither to cook nor clean. Perfect time for reading, right? I’d carefully curated a list of titles on my Kindle (I need choice, for precisely the...

Short Saturday: What Nick Thinks

by | Oct 20, 2012 | The Book Biz

Everyone I know who works in the book biz—and even everyone I know who likes to read—is talking about what’s happening to the industry. And folks who are a lot smarter than me have opinions about it. Including best-selling author Nick Hornby. I love Nick. He makes me...

Short Saturday: To E or Not to E

by | Aug 4, 2012 | The Book Biz

I’m about five weeks out from my vacation, and if you hear me whimpering when I say that word, don’t be surprised. I need it. I’m tired, kids. (Don’t worry: the blog isn’t taking a vacation. The posts are already written. Don’t hate me. I was a Girl Scout: “be...