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Archive for March, 2008

19 Mar

March Madness Is Here

Some years I am more ignorant than others about college basketball. I am in a particularly ignorant place this year and so I have a list of links to peruse to help me fill in my men’s and women’s brackets at ESPN.com. My sister challenges me and others annually and somehow I manage [...]

18 Mar

Sometimes I Read Things I Wish I Hadn’t

Here’s an article I could have done without, “Where Horton sits on abortion.” Does everything really have to be politicized? I haven’t seen the movie, “Horton Hears a Who” and have been planning to. I would have preferred to see the movie without any preconceived notions other than, it’s Dr. [...]

17 Mar

What I Read is Based on What I Read

When I consider how I find books to read, a lot of my reading list is based on reviews in articles I read. Here’s a rough list of how I select books to read in order of frequency of finding interesting books in their lists:

“The Week” book reviews
“Seattle Times” book reviews
“People” magazine book [...]

16 Mar

An Eye for the Rare, Unusual and Desireable

As I was preparing to go out and work in my yard, including planting the new bulbs I picked up at Costco, I referenced my extensive gardening library to find out more Sandersonia. Much to my surprise it wasn’t referenced in any of my books. So off to check the internet.

Lo and behold, as [...]

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