From the almost-daily: Kids are like the weather.
The official site
Shaken and Stirred: The ebook
Sweater Quest: The Podcast
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
- Amazon
- Books-a-Million
- Barnes and Noble
- 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 Michele an email and she'll set you up. - Sweater Quest : Excerpt
Annnnnnnnd something to whet your desire. - The finished cardigan
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
- Wednesday Author Interview with John Scalzi
on the nightstand
- Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
What. a. book. And now to settle in to wait the next ten years... - K. J. Parker: Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy)
Oh, Parker. Why are you so good? - Genevieve Valentine: Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Dang. What a great book. And I still think circuses will be the next vampire. - Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Mnookin is an am-az-ing reporter and this books shows off all of his skills. I'm the choir here, tho. Not sure how it played in the anti-vax circles. Not well, I'd reckon. - Ann Patchett: State of Wonder
I swoon. (I'm not quite convinced she stuck the landing, however.) - Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude
I've had an ARC of this on my shelf since it first came out and could never make it past the first 60 pages. Finally pushed through last week. It's a wonderful book but so ... I don't know... removed? Isolating? - Ann Patchett: The Magician's Assistant
How beautiful is this book? None more beautiful. Patchett is simply leaves me full of awe and wonder. - Sarah Vowell: Unfamiliar Fishes
I'm not reading this so much as listening to it at the gym as I run to nowhere. It's a little too slow to be great running material but we work with what we have. Vowell is, as usual, her oddly engaging self. What strikes me most, however, is how much and how far 18th and 19th century folk traveled - and how close to home most of us now stay, despite how much easier it is to get places in the 21st century.
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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