Obscurorant 2.0

For this next title I jumped from Discworld to 18th century Boston. Second in a series of fifteen.
Anderson, M.T. (2006). The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing, Traitor To The Nation, Vol 1: The Pox Party. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press. 351 pages.
Summary and Evaluation: Octavian lives in a mansion, along with his mother, and he [...]

Last week I decided to make good on my desire to read Masefield’s The Box of Delights, and whistled up a copy courtesy of my local library. But I did not pay close enough attention to the edition I was reserving, even after I received the copy I reserved. It wasn’t until morning coffee [...]

In remembrance of Patrick Swayze, David Lynch re-edited Dirty Dancing. Looks like this will be a fresh take on a familiar film.

One of the assignments for the Young Adult Literature course I’m taking this semester is to keep a ‘reading response journal.’ Since I know that some of my admittedly few readers might be interested in these titles, I have opted (with the professor’s kind permission) to keep this journal online. So, [...]

Requiescat in pace: Patrick Swayze.
The Bunny likes to give me a hard time because of my fondness for Swayze.  I never felt any need to apologize for my appreciation of the man. He made three damn fine B-movies (Red Dawn, Road House, Point Break), a commodity in short supply these recent years.  Transformers? That’s what [...]

This is probably old hat to you long-time devotees of cast iron cookware. But I just recently started cooking eggs in my cast iron skillet and am amazed at hoe great they come out.  Quicker and better than the results I’m used to from my All-Clad skillet.  The cast iron skillet: what can’t it do?

This past weekend was action. packed. what with our baby shower and a birthday party. Pictures are up,  but some are available only to friends and family. (Sorry, but it’s for the children, and you should already be signed up on  flickr as my friends or family member anyway.)

The heat finally went away, which means it’s been safe to turn the stove on again. I’ve done some more messing about in the kitchen (and updated the page appropriately), even going so far as to inflict my cooking on some guests.

I believe I have already mentioned my dislike of books featuring vampires, excepting only two titles (Dracula and Anno Dracula). And now I have to add a third exception to the list. Some time ago my sister gave me a copy of The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova. I finally got around to reading it [...]