A few months ago I joined a book club. My first ever, and boy did I feel instant book geek gratification. A book! club. Where all we do is eat dessert! and read! books! One could pass out from the sheer excitement of it all.
But, seriously. I was excited. Because strawberries and home-made pound-cake? SO [...]

I recently stumbled upon this via Chookooloonks and also Schnozz, and after reading it immediately thought of a Margaret Atwood quote made known to me once upon a (long) time ago, by my Hans So Ever-Literary-Savvy.
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
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Tax refunds. Blessed, blessed tax refunds.
Sunshine, and non sub-zero temperatures, wee!
My car sparkly shiny clean, hand-washed by my favorite uncle, who just happens to be visiting from Seattle, and who also happens to possess an affinity for car cleansing.
Securing a meeting with a cheery, inexpensive florist for next Thursday. Her last name is even “Green.” [...]

Solidified today: The fact that I thoroughly enjoy reading anything authored by Mark Twain.
Why? His writing style is simple and yet memorable. Laden with sarcasm and yet completely honest. His stories endlessly entertaining without the employment of showy, flowery language.
Also because he starts his autobiography with:
I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the [...]

For me a book store is typically a rip-roaring, out of your seat and on your feet adventure in decision-making. An adventure on which I usually heartily and quite frequently embark.
That isn’t to say I always leave the book store in question after having made a particularly pleasing decision.
I have been known to spend hours [...]

the birth of language
and adam rose
fearful in the garden
without words
for the grass
his fingers plucked
without a tongue
to name the taste
shimmering in his mouth
did they draw blood
the blades did it become
his early lunge
toward language
did his astonishment
surround him
did he shudder
did he whisper
eve
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the garden of delight
for some it is stone
bare smooth
as a buttock
rounding
into the crevasse
of the world
for some
it is [...]

The events of these past three months have often and almost proudly made it difficult for me to breathe. Fresh scratches, still raw, still threatening to tear and become gaping holes in my being, cover skin I’m still learning to be comfortable in. Painful scratches that will ultimately require more than a squirt of Bactine [...]

I am using this post to herein transcribe and share my summer reading list because:
a. I typically like keeping my nose stuck in books of all genres, lengths, and shapes, and so why not post them, and don’t books deserve a post, too?
b. After two weeks of brain-break, two weeks of being graduated and reading [...]

Finish
v. finished, finishing, finishes
v. tr. :
1. To arrive at or attain the end of: Today kerri will receive a degree for finishing her undergraduate collegiate studies.
2. To bring to an end; terminate: Her all-night paper-writing partays are forever finished.
3. To consume all of; use up: Some sixty pages of paper were finished during her finals [...]

A sardonic partial lexicon of the English language, The Devil’s Dictionary remains arguably the most enduring of Ambrose Bierce’s writings. One of the most influential journalists of the late nineteenth century, Bierce established himself as one of the Realist Movement’s most capable short story and comic verse writers.
In short, Bierce was highly inclined to the [...]