Tonight Nancy Pearl hosted a lively discussion on the pleasures of summer reading with four “genre” authors: Greg Bear, G.M. Ford, Elizabeth George and Jayne Ann Krentz. Though I was disappointed that Nancy didn’t join in on the conversation more often, I was quite impressed with the panel. I do not consider myself a genre [...]

Nancy Pearl will be be discussing the pleasures of summer reading with several authors tonight at the Seattle Public Library beginning at 7 PM. Authors on hand will include Greg Bear, G.M. Ford, Elizabeth George and Jayne Ann Krentz.

Angela got married and ran off to Africa for a month Ben came to town Christian and the Cats missed me Marjane Satrapi came to town to discuss her book Persepolis Christians purchased a MacBook for me!!!! What else did I miss?

I’m back from my vacation to Alaska’s Inside Passage. Friends, I did not have snail mail addresses for many of you. I’ll email you in the next few days asking for you’re address so I can mail you the post cards I wrote during my trip. Sorry in advance for the Seattle postage mark! My [...]

I’m just about to board the Holland cruise ship, which will take me and my Mother through the Inside Passage of Alaska. I will not have my laptop with me, so I will not be posting for the next week. Here is the final selection of books I chose to take with me: Life of [...]