Monthly Archives: March 2013
Happy Easter!
Beautiful Spring morning here, gorgeous sunrise, will be working in the garden today. Hope you all found the Easter eggs and enjoyed the chocolate bunny. Here are some real ones for ya’.
FFB: The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers
this is the 109th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books The Chinese Parrot by Biggers, Earl Derr © 1926, this copy: Bantam Books mass market paperback, mystery, 2nd Charlie Chan I decided to read (or re-read in some cases) the … Continue reading
no FFB this week
Once again I’m missing Friday Forgotten Books. I’m almost on an every-other-week schedule now, which I don’t like, but I can’t do a post if I don’t have a book to review that meets the profile. I just finished a … Continue reading
NCAA basketball time of year
Once pro football is over, there’s not much of interest to me in sports until the NCAA men’s basketball conference championship tournaments, which were held last weekend. I watched those, and the bracket selection show (here’s the bracket). Now it’s time … Continue reading
Garden Night, Garden Day
Just a quick note. Every year there’s an early Spring event here called Plant Nerds Night, sponsored by a local radio station that has a Saturday garden program. Plant Nerds Night was last night. For us, it’s the first gardening event … Continue reading
review: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan © 2012, Straus and Giroux 2012 hardcover – novel Mr. Penubra’s 24-hour Bookstore first came to my attention through reading a review of it online, possibly on the Washington Post or Boston Globe site. Regardless, it sounded … Continue reading
