To honor St. Patrick’s Day, Sandra Gisi offers us Three Irish Creatures Cooler Than Leprechauns “You’ll be seeing a lot of images of tiny bearded men in green coats and…Continue readingCooler Than Leprechauns?
When I was a little girl one in my family’s extensive collection of 45 rpm singles — remember those? turntables? vinyl? — was a record of Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite.…Continue readingI will walk with you…
Ahh, friend cats reading about friend humans! Ever wonder what your cat does while you are away? At Bustle, Caitlin White explains and illustrates. No matter how great your book…Continue readingCats and books
Jennifer Schaffer of BuzzFeed has selected some of the most beautiful sentences in literature (below), and that made somebody ask me about what I like in my own works. I…Continue readingWhat do YOU like?
QUIZ: Classic Houses In Literature on the Imaginary Real Estate Market Bright, colorful farmhouse in rural Canadian townThe Western canon is having a real estate sale: All the settings of…Continue readingWhich would you buy?
We moved into a peculiar house. The downstairs area, a “daylight basement”, was completely unfinished — concrete floors, no ceiling, open to the dirt at the back of the house.…Continue readingWhat are you hiding?
The Bedroom Quirks of 10 Great Authors You know that Shakespeare, James Joyce and Lord Byron were geniuses when it came to their ways with words, but as anyone who…Continue readingBedroom Quirks
A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia – Photo by Asher Svidensky The Kazakhs of the Altai mountain range in western Mongolia are the only people that hunt with golden eagles,…Continue readingShe hunts with eagles
The library is the last, best socialized institution in America today and you’re about to lose it, Democrats Ramshield says at the DailyKos. Library budgets have become low hanging fruit…Continue readingWill you lose your library?
An Australian university textbook rental outfit called Zookal has promised to deliver its wares by drone, Simon Sharwood tells us in The Register. Zookal has teamed with another Sydney startup,…Continue readingOz bookshop to deliver by drone