Wednesday, November 24, 2010
FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 21-27, 2010 WHAT I’M READING: I picked a book: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. Actually it picked me. It just showed up on my doorstep. Oooo, so mysterious her life. The book is right up my alley: tragical whimsical melancholy. WHAT ELSIE’S READING: Besides the same [...]
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FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 1-7, 2010 WHAT I’M READING: All those suggestions, y’all, and I never picked one. Are you disappointed in me? I’m disappointed in me. This is all about me and my disappointments. (My mother just cringed. She hates the whole obsessive-inward-looking-self-examination-self-focused stuff of blog culture. She prefers outward and upward. Mom, [...]
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 10-16, 2010 WHAT I’M READING: Ever since I finished Lullabies for Little Criminals, I have been wary to start anything new. Please friends, suggest something wonderful… WHAT ELSIE’S READING: Dinosaur books of all kinds. This morning she said ‘Brachiosauraus’ right before yelling another gem: ‘NO TALKING!’ I know, Simon and [...]
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 19-25 WHAT I’M READING: Well, I just finished Solar by Ian McEwan, which is very funny and kind of disturbing. McEwan even tries to fool us into thinking he does research or something in order to make the protagonist a Nobel prize winning physicist. But we all know he’s just [...]
FOR THE WEEK OF MAY, 2010 9-16 WHAT I’M READING: RAPT by Winifred Gallagher—a book which discusses the notion of attention. It’s more psychological/scientifically based than self-helpy…if you’re interested but slightly concerned that I might be wooing you into that territory! And I am preparing to re-read Zadie Smith’s ON BEAUTY partly because my mother [...]
For the week of March 21-27: WHAT I’M READING: My current obsession: cookbooks. Healthy delicious recipes that involve lentils, kale and more often than not, coconut milk. I need my own cooking show I think. Simon the scientist could talk about temperature or the equipment, and I could demonstrate the cooking in a white gown, [...]
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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 7-13, 2010 WHAT I’M READING: Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony AND The Bible in French. WHAT ELSIE’S READING: Olivia. Remember how we made the shift to stories instead of those nasty learning books? The girl is so on board, laughing at all the right places. I love this kid’s sense [...]
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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: The Sedona Method, which is all about releasing feelings so you don’t have to carry around so much angst. Not that I carry around a lot of angst or anything…not me. Oh no. Never. Excuse me while I go release those lies. WHAT ELSIE’S READING: [...]
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 10-16, 2010 WHAT I’M READING: Chapters of The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, and The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. A very nice combination of easy to absorb brain science and light but not too light romance. WHAT ELSIE’S READING: She’s really into MY FIRST BOOK OF [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 6-12, 2009 WHAT I’M READING: My mother’s thesis. I’m all over Margaret Avison. Damn, can she string words together! (Yes, we are in the throws of PhD madness over at the Davey household; Simon expects to narrowly beat my mother to the finish.) God. God. Throwingness of PhDing over. Under. [...]
