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Bloody hell. It's a long weekend.

Hitting the wall today. It didn't take long. During the week, when life's busy and the kids are running to school, bravery's a whole hell of a lot easier. When it gets to the weekend - especially a long, holiday... Continue reading

Posted 1 hour ago at Bluestalking

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A Literary Moment with Thomas Henry Huxley

From Yeast by Thomas H. Huxley "The quantity of this dirty-looking stuff, that we call the scum and the lees, goes on increasing until it reaches a certain amount, and then it stops; and by the time it stops, you... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at Bluestalking

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And... I have a job interview!

Getting a job interview isn’t the same as having the actual job, of course, but it’s certainly a good first step. An essential first step. Especially when it’s an interview for my first choice library, one of the three or... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Bluestalking

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Despite it all, I still loves me some library

It hasn't yet been a week since I lost my job but the hours drag on so slowly it feels like months. I want to smack the clock to get it going again. The feeling's so wretched, the nerves still... Continue reading

Posted May 14, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Unemployment: The scourge and the process of recovery

Right, then. No grass growing under my feet. Let's do this thing. Our position is more fortunate than that of a lot of Americans. My husband is still employed and we have a cushion to fall back on, savings and... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Innocuous post: Doctor Who: Every Single Usage of "Exterminate" in Series

Break ranks. Not book related. I lost my job this week. I am part of the collective dis-en-work-ized. The how and the why and the unfairness. I won't go into it. Let me just say: I will miss my library.... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2013 at Bluestalking

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I've had the rest; it's here that's best.

Our newest proud possession: an espresso/cappuccino maker touched by God himself Ever since my husband and son returned from their spring break trip to Italy, all I've been hearing is ITALYITALYITALYISSOGREATISSOGREATISSOGREAT! Hence, the appearance of a DeLonghi espresso maker (to... Continue reading

Posted May 2, 2013 at Bluestalking

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The Art of Aging Gracelessly

It's all flying by and that's probably for the best. The sooner these "good old days" are done the better. Alas and alack, but I am a tired soul. An old and tired soul... But I am reading the most... Continue reading

Posted Apr 30, 2013 at Bluestalking

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What a Gal Reads on Her Birthday

Today is my birthday. It's also the day Virginia Woolf put rocks in her pockets and went wading in the River Ouse. Apropos. I'm pretty sure I say that same thing every year. Unlike me, it just never gets old.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Reading, Old and New

“Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” - Andrew Marvell Once upon a time I read classics, the whole classics and nothing but the classics - something that's probably fairly common amongst people with... Continue reading

Posted Mar 27, 2013 at Bluestalking

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My NetGalley Hoard...

When I say I shouldn't be let out of the house, I mean it. Or, I shouldn't be allowed near a computer with internet connectivity, more like. All I do is wreak havoc, when given half a chance. And when... Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Can't Get Enough of that Bard

Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors and Directors Ed. by Susannah Carson, Foreword by Harold Bloom Vintage (April 2013) This arrived on my desk at work today and I'm absolutely beside myself with joy. I hadn't heard of it;... Continue reading

Posted Mar 25, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Read All About It! Book News - 3/24/2013

Bestselling eBooks 2012 - via Publishers Weekly Philip Roth at 80 - via NPR Most Anticipated Books, Spring 2013 - via Publishers Weekly Jimmy Fallon's Books to Not Read - via NBC Books Aren't Dead Yet - via Salon Can... Continue reading

Posted Mar 25, 2013 at Bluestalking

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The Sunday Salon: 3/24/2013 - WTF? Edition

Okay, I realize I was gone a while and the Interwebs stop for no woman but did I really fall to Blog #5 from... from... what I was before, which wasn't 5? Do I need to cry blood to keep... Continue reading

Posted Mar 23, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Slouching Toward the Keyboard

Sad. I've been avoiding my blog because I'm embarrassed for saying I'm throwing in the towel, embarrassed to say I changed my mind overnight, then embarrassed to have been away so long, not knowing what I want to say in... Continue reading

Posted Mar 23, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman

Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman Other Press (April 23, 2013) 320 pp. Source: NetGalley eBook Helen is divorced, living in London with her six-year old daughter, Sophie, and English-Pakistani boyfriend, Mo. A native of Glasgow, Helen moves... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2013 at Bluestalking

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What I posted yesterday, please ignore...

Welcome to my public mid-life crisis. If you saw what I posted yesterday, pretend it didn't happen. If you didn't all well and good, no skin off anyone's nose, etc. I'll work it out, work through it, and all that.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2013 at Bluestalking

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The Sunday Salon: February 24

Since January 1st I've read nineteen books, according to Goodreads. Nineteen! I set my 2013 goal at 100 (I read 50-ish last year) and am currently four books ahead of schedule. I'm never ahead for anything, friends. Anything. If you... Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2013 at Bluestalking

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100 Essential Sites for Voracious Readers

Most 'umble thanks to Masters in English for including Bluestalking in their list of esteemed sites recommended for English majors and other rabid readers. I'm in good company with peeps such as: The New York Review of Books, The Millions,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 20, 2013 at Bluestalking

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A bit of catch-up

Oh, for more time in the day. Whine! Have been rather a busy bee lately, starting and getting involved in so many books it has to be a criminal offense, or at least an offense. I finished Jim Crace's latest... Continue reading

Posted Feb 20, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein

Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein Other Press, 2012 126pp. Genre: Nonfiction/Literary Criticism Library copy. " But even at a very young age reading was for him a very serious business and he was outraged by the fact that it... Continue reading

Posted Feb 20, 2013 at Bluestalking

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My dear Lynne! My daughter will be studying in Wales a year from now (Swansea). I'll have to pass along to her the fact winter loses its grip so much earlier in Britain. Here we still have snow. No flowers popping up 'til late March/early April at the earliest. And we can't plant anything 'til mid-MAY... Sigh. But she won't be that far from you next year, will she? The lucky thing! Lisa :-)

Commented Feb 16, 2013 on In Devon... drifting snow... at dovegreyreader scribbles

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Late resolutions for addictions gone wild

My New Year's Resolutions for this year included a vague idea I should spend less money on books, instead reading more of my own stuff and the library's, especially since we now have one kid in college and in just... Continue reading

Posted Feb 16, 2013 at Bluestalking

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After Downton Abbey: Parade's End

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Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Bluestalking

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Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce Random House, 2012 308 pp. Source: Library Tara Martin disappeared at age 16, her boyfriend the last person to see her, leading the police - and her family - to believe he... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Bluestalking

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