Predictably, next in my reading was Gryphon in Glory, the second book in the trilogy. I haven’t read it as many times (because for a long time I did not know that The Crystal Gryphon had a sequel) so it’s not as much of a remembered favorite. I remember how Andre Norton enraptured me as […]
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First up, The Crystal Gryphon by André Norton, given to me for Christmas by my marvelous roomie. After deciding months ago that it had been too long since I’d read the trilogy, I managed to locate the sequels. The first book, however, had eluded me. Luckily my roommate is a skilled huntress of books. The
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The idea, as well as the name for it, started here. It hardly needs saying that Neil Gaiman is a genius. “Shelfie” is a marvelous and meaningful word. Here is a shelfie of the built-in bookcase in my living room, along with my share of the not built-in bookcase in the living room, followed by the
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And to all a good night. Tonight we ate at our kitchen table, potato soup that I made in my new Christmas crockpot (opened early, sue me.) It was delicious. The kid was a pain in the butt as she’s been so much lately, but it was still nice. After we watched A Muppet Christmas
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Will you (generic you) PLEASE PROOFREAD? And in the VERY NEXT ARTICLE I happened to look at… Holy carp, will you please proofread? IT’S NOT THAT HARD! Read it aloud. Get another pair of eyes on it. SOMETHING.
It’s vacation, it’s vacation! Two weeks of winter break, here at last! I’m the hap-happiest girl in the whole USA… Okay, I’ll stop singing. But seriously. I need this break so bad. I thought I was gonna shrivel up and die before we made it, but we finally all got out of there. The grades
Do you have that extra piece of furniture in your room? You know the one. In most of my bedrooms it’s been a chair. Once it was a desk, and another time just the top of my dresser, but it’s always there. In this bedroom, it’s my bed. Under that picture is the end of
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