Clippings 17: moving blues

I spent last weekend helping my sister pack up her house for a cross-country move to Savannah, and it’s now a week since she whisked off her goofy husband and three adorable kids and deserted me.  I miss you, Seester!  So now I’ve got the moving blues without the excitement of exploring a new town.  Nothing to do but console myself with planning a visit — and reading, of course.

This brand new biography of an all-time favorite story writer is newly released and clamoring for position at the top of the TBR list.  I know nothing of biographer Brad Gooch except that he also wrote a volume on Frank O’Hara, but the subject matter alone is enough to entice.

Are you an “obsessive reader”?  The Rumpus has a great interview with a woman who has been reading Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native back-to-back…for TEN years.  I don’t re-read anything that frequently (The Chronicles of Narnia and Paton’s Too Late the Phalarope get in every few years) but maybe I should.  What title would it be?

BookGirl, fellow blogger turned bookbinder, has added these delightful postcard journals to her Etsy shop. Perfect for anyone who collects postcards or, like me, just has to jot down notes on everything she’s reading!

Bookish Ruth tipped me off to these annotated Sherlock Holmes volumes (one vol. of the novels, and a two-vol. set of the short stories), edited by Sherlockian scholar Leslie Klinger.  The Holmes stories and novels were, I think, the first complete series I read through as a kid and they completely hooked me on mysteries.  They also taught me a lot of Britishisms (how else could I have learned orange peels are also known as pips?)  I still have my original hardcover volumes, but I’d love to pore over these annotations and be enlightened about all the allusions and context I missed. 

In celebration of Women’s History Month (and today being International Women’s Day), Christians for Biblical Equality is offering 20% off several books in their online ship, including Scot McKnight’s The Blue Parakeet and Jerome and Kellie Daley’s Not Your Parents’ Marriage.  Use the code 200903WH to get the discount until March 22.

Speaking of gender, this “blog gender analyzer” says that my posts at this blog are 74% likely to have been written by a man.  I’ve got news for those logarithms!  What gender is your blog?

09. March 2009 by Mindy
Categories: Clippings | 2 comments

Comments (2)