The moral of this story was to clean your room.
Don't think it worked, but I loved it anyway.
Don't think it worked, but I loved it anyway.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
This is the kind of snark you get in your in-box when your relatives all live on the west coast
Winter Storm Damage in southern B.C.
Here is a photo I received of the damage from the terrible coastal storm that was passing through Victoria.
Most people stayed home and most schools were cancelled.
It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take life for granted.
To all of you living in the area, our prayers are with you.
Here is a photo I received of the damage from the terrible coastal storm that was passing through Victoria.
Most people stayed home and most schools were cancelled.
It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take life for granted.
To all of you living in the area, our prayers are with you.
free Christmas songs
iTunes is offering some free Christmas songs for one week. I can attest to the goodness of the Sarah McLachlan "Silent Night" and the Sugarland "Emmanuel" because I own them. The rest I downloaded but haven't tried.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
ooh books books books!
Ooh, a little interview has been posted on indigo.ca with my second favourite teen author!
* I also caved and bought 3 more Louise Rennison books today. I've been taking them out of the library, but someone had book 7 the last few times I looked for it, and now it's winter which is when I'm too coldy to go to the library on my day off. So I expect to be royally entertained veddy veddy soon. (Though I will, sadly, read them all in a couple days. At least I still have 3 more Lockhart books to read.)
We have a staff special this weekend on bargain books, so I also bought Martha Beck's last book, Steering by Starlight. She's one of the life coaches I quite like.
Q: In The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Frankie is changed by the novels of P.G. Wodehouse. It is kind of an unusual choice, do you think that your readers will understand the literary reference and what does this say about the character? Did you read Wodehouse as a teen?
EL: I read Wodehouse as a teen. Exhaustively. In my 20s I was a member of the Wodehouse society. They're books about 25 year-old men cavorting in a club and romancing girls and getting into trouble. They're hysterically funny. No reason many teens wouldn't love them. But I don't expect my readers to know Wodehouse already. There's a pretty exhaustive explanation of what the books mean to Frankie.
* I also caved and bought 3 more Louise Rennison books today. I've been taking them out of the library, but someone had book 7 the last few times I looked for it, and now it's winter which is when I'm too coldy to go to the library on my day off. So I expect to be royally entertained veddy veddy soon. (Though I will, sadly, read them all in a couple days. At least I still have 3 more Lockhart books to read.)We have a staff special this weekend on bargain books, so I also bought Martha Beck's last book, Steering by Starlight. She's one of the life coaches I quite like.
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