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A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
Lemonade and a fan. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteWay too hot to blog for those of us with laptops! Didn't know my legs would sweat tears underneath it!
ReplyDeleteWould you be reading A Light in August? :D
Oh, that would be too perfect, wouldn't it? With a glass of lemonade on the side? I'm reading The Unvanquished, which contains a lot more humor than I'd expected.
ReplyDeleteOne more day of triple digit heat and then we're supposed to get a break. . .
We are going to be in the triple digits for the next few days and then it will cool off to the mid-90s. It's disgustingly hot in my computer room, too. That's also where my treadmill is. I suffer my 45 minutes walking, making the room too hot to bear and then can't make myself sit in there to use the computer. I'll also be finding somewhere cool to read this weekend. I'm hoping to finally get through the last 100 pages of Don Quixote. Stay cool.
ReplyDeleteWhat a summer! Here in our portion of the South, it is just beginning to get to the high 90's...we are usually there in June or July, but this year it rained, keeping the temps down but humidity up. I'm ready for fall...
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the Faulkner!