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My Horn Can Pierce the Sky!

Posted in Just For Fun, Television on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Presenting Princess Unicorn! The first three minutes of tonight’s episode of The Office was as funny as it gets. I haven’t laughed that hard in weeks. While the rest of the episode wasn’t nearly as good (I didn’t think the Meredith intervention storyline worked) the creation of Princess Unicorn was brilliant. Dwight paired with the [...]

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Why I’m in a Book Club, Part 4

Posted in Books on December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Which books did your group find were real duds when it came to discussion? Alone (Adm. Richard E. Byrd))—ugh. I love adventure stories, but this one was painful. Few finished it and the discussion was disappointing. Dangling Man (Saul Bellow)—see the “first books by great authors” rule in my previous post. Great Books (David Denby)—ironic [...]

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Why I’m in a Book Club, Part 3

Posted in Books on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Which books stand out as particularly good for discussion? Our group has had the best, most spirited and lengthy discussions over books with the least consensus. In general, a book that we all like leads to a very agreeable and fairly uninteresting discussion, consisting of a lot of comments along the lines of “I loved [...]

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Why I’m in a Book Club, Part 2

Posted in Books on December 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »

How does your group choose the books they read? There’s only one rule when it comes to choosing a book—it has to be something that no one in the group has already read. (This is a rule we’ve been known to break on occasion, as we get older and more forgetful of the books we [...]

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Why I’m in a Book Club, Part 1

Posted in Books on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Back in 1993, I created my first book recommendation list—a rundown of the books I’d read and enjoyed throughout the year. At the time, I was working at WTTW (the local public TV station) and my commute on the El gave me two hours of reading time a day. I went through a lot of [...]

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Saturday 3 p.m. ~ Christmas Tree!

Posted in Saturday 3 p.m. on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

No, that's not a body bag. It's the Christmas tree coming home.   Ta da!

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Sandhill Crane Spotting!

Posted in Birding on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m walking home this afternoon, listening to a podcast on my iPod, when all of a sudden I’m aware of a strange squeaky-squawky sound. I look up to see a large line of migrating birds navigating their way along the lake shore. Not the usual geese. No, that sound meant only one thing — Sandhill [...]

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Review: October Light

Posted in Books on December 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Robert Gardner (1976) It’s been a while since I’ve read a book that I was so happy to finish because NOW I DON’T HAVE TO READ IT ANYMORE! Let me count the ways I disliked this book. Oh, wait, we don’t have enough time. Set in rural Vermont, the story centers on an elderly brother [...]

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If I Close My Eyes, I’m Sitting in a Forest of Douglas Fir

Posted in Just For Fun on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My huge order from Juniper Ridge was waiting for me when I got to the office today and it smells amazing in here. Scents of cedar, sage and fir fill the air.

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Review: Mr. Standfast

Posted in Books on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John Buchan (1919) Buchan’s spy series (begun with The Thirty-Nine Steps) continues into WWI with Greenmantle and Mr. Standfast, which I think is the best of the three. Our hero, Richard Hannay, is called up for another secret mission. Initially hesitant to leave command of his troops on the Western Front, Hannay is convinced by [...]

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