First, I’d like to declare my undying love for Snoopy of Peanuts fame. He’s smart, funny, good-looking, and a little bit mischievous (also canine, which is always a plus). Sometimes my dog reminds me of the Peanuts cartoons I grew up reading, which makes me reach out and hug him. He’s disconcerted by quick motion,…
Category: Books
Saturday Footnotes and Seamus Heaney
This isn’t a real post so much as a clump of small thoughts from today. First, I just started reading a book that I’ve hoped to read for a few years (my “to read” list is a little bit out of hand, so sometimes things get lost in the shuffle) . It’s called Ibid: a…
Goodbye, Good Reads Challenge!
Soon after starting my job in February, I joined some co-workers and their friends in a reading challenge. It sounded like fun. I am, after all, a librarian with a competitive streak. What could possibly go wrong with something that combines those two things? I started reading and filling in categories (a book over 700…
Small, but valuable. 