Saturday Reading

Ever since the Democratic & Republican conventions, I’ve been watching, reading, and talking politics much of the time. It increased even more in the month before the election. Now that it’s over I finally find myself with time to relax and do all the things that had been pushed aside for the past few months.… Continue reading Saturday Reading

By the way…

…my Mom was featured on {Culture is Good} – her first {This is Good} feature! She’s the “Page Turner” feature at the top. Check out her great post here. TIG (This post was brought over from emilyw.vox.com. Click here for the original post and comments.)

Election Day/Night

I love this video…when else has anyone seen New Yorkers burst into a jubilant Star Spangled Banner in the streets of Manhattan? My election day and evening were wonderful. Ryan and I got up early and arrived at the polls about 7:05am. We waited about a half hour to vote, and had no trouble or… Continue reading Election Day/Night

Happy Election Day!

We don’t get I Voted stickers in Hoboken, so I’m putting a badge on my Vox instead: Printelect—I-Voted-Today (This post was brought over from emilyw.vox.com. Click here for the original post and comments.)

Vonnegut's Joe

I re-read A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut on Sunday, and I had to laugh when I got to this part: Joe, a young man from Pittsburg, came up to me with one request: “Please tell me it will all be okay.” “Welcome to Earth, young man,” I said. “It’s hot in the… Continue reading Vonnegut's Joe

The Annotated Pride & Prejudice

The Annotated Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Yesterday I finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice, using David M. Shapard’s Annotated edition. It took me more than twice as long as just reading the novel only, but the annotations provided a lot of extra helpful and interesting information and it was very worth the extra time. I… Continue reading The Annotated Pride & Prejudice

Links for 10.15.08

Beautiful 2009 calendar – I’ve already pre-ordered mine. :) Photos of gorgeous bookstores from all over the world. (Found on Books on the Nightstand.) Funny McSweeney’s article that imagines a university library getting the attention it deserves. (This post was brought over from emilyw.vox.com. Click here for the original post and comments.)

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