The whole thing started innocently enough, as these things usually do, with a trip to the library. It was intended to be a quick trip and it was a quick trip, but somehow I managed to exit the library with three new books. At least they were borrowed, not bought. I picked up Eye of [...]
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I was gifted with a lovely new camera for Christmas, a Canon 60D, but the convergence of my last semester of grad school with the Brain Incident means I have not spent a lot of time with it. And the few pictures I did take I shot in RAW, which means I need to [...] Fermor, Patrick Leigh (1977). A Time of Gifts. NY: The New York Review of Books. 316 pages. The Library of Congress cataloging data just inside the cover of A Time of Gifts lists the subject headings of ‘Europe-Description and travel’ and ‘Europe, Central-Description and travel’ but one could just as easily describe it as part [...] I found this meme at the Boston Bibliophile, although it apparently originated at Stuck In A Book. Play along if the spirit so moves you. 1. The book I’m currently reading. My current fiction read is Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin. I bought this book several years ago, when John Scalzi praised it on his [...] Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, we have a Flickr set titled Harbor Views, including pictures of the Harbor islands and light houses. I found the images of the hospital and other buildings on Long Island, as well as pictures of the construction of the bridge to that island, to be fascinating. The island is [...] |
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