From the almost-daily: Kids are like the weather.
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
- Amazon
- Books-a-Million
- Barnes and Noble
- Borders
- IndieBound
- Powell's Books
- Green Toad Book Store
The Green Toad is my local bookshop, which is the best place to go if you'd like a signed copy of Sweater Quest. I can drop down to the store and personalize a copy for you, too. Just drop Michelle or Claire an email and they'll set you up. - Sweater Quest : Excerpt
Annnnnnnnd something to whet your desire.
Live and in person
Hillbilly Gothic: Links
- Simon & Schuster: Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood (Hardcover) - Read an Excerpt
The first chapter. - The Boston Globe
- The SF Chronicle
I debated about adding this one, since it is less than flattering. However, if I'm going to point to the good ones, it seems only fair to point to the mediocre ones. After all, ignoring bad press is the federal government's job, not mine. - ELLE Magazine
- :: Metro Pulse Online ::
- Interview in the San Diego Reader
I can only begin to tell you how much fun this interview was. - Interview podcast from Psychjourney
- Off the Page podcast from WSKG Radio
Ever wondered if I could keep up my end of a conversation for an hour? Wonder no more. - Wednesday Author Interview with John Scalzi
People who pay me
- Knitty
- Shaken and Stirred
- Austin Chronicle archive
- Austin Chronicle, more
- Metro Pulse archive, weekly wire
- Cooking Light: the Alton Brown piece
- Bookslut
- Moorcock's Miscellany - Content
- Washington Post Book World
- Cooking Light: the Ina Garten Q&A
- Babble: Food for Thought
- Washington Post Book World (Oct. sci-fi roundup)
- Babble: Post-partum depression times two
- Baltimore City Paper
- Locus Online: Science Fiction News, Reviews, Resources, Perspectives
- Edible Austin - Cooking Gluten-Free
- Edible Finger Lakes
- Edible Hudson Valley - on Lucky Dog Farms
on the nightstand
- Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan
All the cool kids were reading it. And I can see why. Great YA steampunk/WWI mashup with a strong female protagonist. - Terry Pratchett: Unseen Academicals (Discworld)
I usually save Pratchett's Discworld books for the iPod but I've heard such good things about this one that I had to read read it, rather than listen read it. - Joe Hill: Heart-Shaped Box
Scott got me a nook for Christmas. This is the first title I'm reading on it. So far - love both. (I also think the nook feature where you can sample titles before you buy them will save me a ton of money...) - Libba Bray: Going Bovine
So many folks have raved about this that I thought that there was no possible way it could live up to the hype. It does. Gorgeous, sassy book. - Phil Foglio: Girl Genius: Omnibus Edition #1 (No. 1)
I heard so much about this at Anticipation in Montreal that I had to pick up a copy. Enjoying the heck out of it so far. Very steampunkish. Very girl power. - John Varley: Rolling Thunder
Varley just does it for me. YMMV. - Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle)
I coincidentally wound up reading two works of WWII-set fiction simultaneously - this and Connie Willis' Blackout (which you are going to love). TGLAPPPS is a perfectly lovely book, if one can describe a story about Nazi occupation, concentration camps and isolation as lovely. You can tell that there were bits of historical info that the writers didn't know how to seamlessly work in and they turn up in weird chunks - but, ultimately, it is a breezy read. If you can use "breezy" to describe a book about coming through despair. - Jincy Willett: The Writing Class
Did not see that ending coming, which is just further proof that Willett is a master technician. With this, she gets to the ineffable heart about why people write, what a story is and why we read. All with a killer mystery plot and delicious wit.
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They left out a word; where do I call to complain?
My niece was totally into baring her belly for a while--wore her American Idol costume constantly. Now she can't get her nose out of a book. Some stages are definitely better than others and cause much less stress for parents and other loved ones. ;)
Posted by: Anna | June 21, 2008 at 07:28 PM
About two weeks ago, JJ forgot how to sleep.
I'm not even kidding. This is the baby who was sleeping through the night at 2 months. Now he's lucky if he can go for two hours at a stretch. Bec and I are somewhat frantically trying to formulate and test hypotheses as to why. We're all exhausted, including him. We're gonna call the doctor on Monday just to make sure nothing's medically wrong.
If this phase is replaced by anything short of horns and flaming earwax, it'll be an improvement.
-D*
Posted by: Dave* | June 21, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Dave* - I've totally been there. Both of mine were lousy sleepers -- despite being OK sleepers for the first couple of months -- and still go through bouts of weird patterns. Nien times out of ten we can't find the slightest reason why. It passes -- but not before making us very, very cranky in the meantime.
Still, falming earwax sounds kinda cool.
Posted by: Adrienne | June 23, 2008 at 02:07 PM
We may have a solution. We took him to the pediatrician today and she informed us that in addition to the one tooth that just broke through, he's cutting three more and may have another in pipeline. All at once. No wonder he's been crabby. This is like "American Werewolf in London" territory.
So he had a nice dose of Motrin before bed and we'll if that doesn't help.
-D*
Posted by: Dave* | June 23, 2008 at 09:03 PM