Sometimes they’re just plain fun My son announced yesterday that his school-assigned summer reading this year is Dickens’ Great Expectations. “I love Dickens,” I said, “but that’s not my favorite.” Apparently, the teacher herself said she wasn’t a huge fan of the book but felt it was something people “should” read which made me a [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 26, 2009
Sleep and the City
What women really talk about when they get together I enjoy watching old episodes of “Sex and the City” as much as the next woman of a certain age. (The movie not so much, although I did manage to watch the whole thing on HBO in the same way I can eat an entire bag of [...]
May 19, 2009
Did a Radio Interview
I have a weird voice The couple of times I’ve done radio interviews, the main thing I’ve gotten out of it is what a weird voice I have. High and squeaky. I go into a sort of adrenalin-rush hazy state when I’m talking, so I always wonder if I said anything coherent or just sounded [...]
May 13, 2009
Another Argument for TV
But it all starts with the books (Note: this post was originally written for my other blog www.bookstorepeople.com.) I was close to tears. It had happened twice. The first time I sat down to watch the premiere episode of the Masterpiece Theater version of Charles Dickens’ “Little Dorrit,” I discovered it hadn’t recorded. I was [...]
May 5, 2009
Favoritism
Is it okay to have a favorite among the books you wrote? I have a running joke with my kids. I’ll say something about how one of them is my favorite, usually adding, “and that one knows who I mean.” The kids are well aware that parents aren’t actually allowed to have favorites, so they [...]
