Wordless Wednesday 2013-11-13

Posted on 2013 Nov 13 by Kat
gulls

Photographer: Kat Nagel
Camera: Olympus SP570UZ
Taken: 2013-05-26

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Teaser Tuesday 2013-11-12: Our Hundred Days In Europe

Posted on 2013 Nov 12 by Kat

Teaser Tuesdays

This week, my Teaser is from an old book, long out of print in its hardcover edition, but with several good paperback and e-book editions. (The many hardcover editions, of course, are still available in libraries.)

The process of shaving, never a delightful one, is a very unpleasant and awkward piece of business when the floor on which one stands, the glass in which he looks, and he himself are all describing those complex curves which make cycles and epicycles seem like simplicity itself. The little box contained a reaping machine…. It was, in short, a lawnmower for the masculine growth of which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance.

Book: Our Hundred Days In Europe (1887)

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I’ve just added this to my Goodreads To Be Read shelf and to my Mount TBR 2014 Challenge list. It sat on my bookshelf for years, through at least three moves, but I’ve never read it. Not sure why, since I’ve admired Holmes’ way with words since I first read The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table and his poem Old Ironsides.

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Mindful Monday 2013-11-11: Safe Place

Posted on 2013 Nov 11 by Kat

Everyone needs a safe place.

Midnight has hers.

Where is your safe place?

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday Scribblings 2013-11-10

Posted on 2013 Nov 10 by Kat

Sunday Scribblings

This week’s prompt: Poem

 

Cori Winrock lives here in Rochester, NY, and teaches at SUNY Geneseo where she serves on the pre-medicine advisory committee and encourages natural science students to write in her course INTD 105: Literature in the Laboratory.

An extract from “Dear Exterior, or the opposite of factory is museum”

An inverse. A bright white déjà vu:
a hand inside a head unraveling the public

memory. Step into the same freezing
corridor brimming with preservation

lines of object and meant-to-be-

seen.

The Lamron, Geneseo’s student newspaper, published this article on Winrock.

Jonathan Everitt interviewed Winrock for his blog in May 2013.

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Signing Up For Mount TBR 2014

Posted on 2013 Nov 09 by Kat

Last Saturday, 2013-11-02, I moaned about missing my 2013 Mount TBR goal. I read lots and lots of books, but not the specific books I said I’d read.

For 2014, I will be signing up again. As an exercise in self-discipline, this year I’m going to commit to a higher level of accomplishment: Mt. Vancouver (36 specific books) instead of Mount Blanc (24 specific books).

I will read the books on my 2013 list, plus at least another dozen.

When I’ve decided which books, I’ll update the list here:
The books are listed in order by publication date. I won’t necessarily read them in that order, though.

Kat’s Mount TBR 2014: Mt. Vancouver

  1. Washington Square, Henry James
  2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
  3. Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper
  4. The Bat, Jo Nesbø
  5. The Starship and the Canoe, Kenneth Brower (2013 #4)
  6. VALIS, Philip K. Dick
  7. A Perfect Match, Jill McGown
  8. Chop Wood, Carry Water, Rick Field (2013 #5)
  9. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm
  10. Spiritual Journey, Anne Bancroft (2013 #8)
  11. Paradise, Toni Morrison
  12. Bedlam’s Bard, Mercedes Lackey
  13. Bootlegger’s Daughter, Margaret Maron
  14. A Share in Death, Deborah Crombie
  15. Blind Goddess, Anne Holt
  16. A Tale of Two SKittys, Mercedes Lackey
  17. The Fire Rose, Mercedes Lackey
  18. A Word After Dying, Ann Granger (2013 #10)
  19. McNally’s Puzzle, Lawrence Sanders (2013 #11)
  20. The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver (2013 #12)
  21. Death Angels, Ake Edwardson
  22. Killing Floor, Lee Childs
  23. Consilience, Edward O. Wilson (2013 #13)
  24. Lost Christianities, Bart Ehrman (2013 #14)
  25. The Heart of Christianity, Marcus Borg (2013 #15)
  26. Cat vs. Cat, Pam Johnson-Bennett (2013 #16)
  27. Liberating the Gospels, John Shelby Spong (2013 #17)
  28. The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
  29. Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card (2013 #18)
  30. The Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller (2013 #19)
  31. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
  32. The War of Gifts, Orson Scott Card (2013 #20)
  33. The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes (2013 #21)
  34. Holy Warriors, Richard Kaeuper
  35. The Lens and the Looker, Lory Kaufman (2013 #23)
  36. Use All The Crayons, Chris Rodell (2013 #24)
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