An Archivist's Miscellania

How did it get to be February already? It seems like we just finished the holidays! Since the year is already getting away from me, I am a l...

Last year I set a goal of reading 70 books, which I barely managed to meet, squeaking in at 71 - once again not counting the hundreds read t...

Whoops. So much for my unannounced resolution of writing more blogs this year. Guess I can start that now? Following on the heels of my pr...

It is the new year, and I guess that means it is time for lists and reviews of the year just past. For me, the first and most important list...

The weather has taken a cold turn - actually a bit colder than normal for this time of year, not that I am complaining - and the leaves are ...

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries . They are an ongoing adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , through Lizzie Bennet's video diaries on YouTube. He...

At the beginning of the year, I signed up for two reading challenges - one on Goodreads and one at the Roof Beam Reader. To date, I am done ...

If you have been reading me for any length of time, you know I am a book nerd, or book geek, or whatever you preferred designation. At the s...

Judgment Day by Penelope Lively My rating: 4 of 5 stars I love Penelope Lively's books, and I always find it so hard to describe why...

Ganymede by Cherie Priest My rating: 4 of 5 stars Cherie Priest is one of my favorite authors right now, and Ganymede is a good example...

Did you know that we are smack in the middle of Banned Books Week ? Well, we are. As a librarian/avid reader/liberal, I am very much anti-bo...

Whoops. Looks like I forgot to post anything yesterday. Sorry ('cause I know you are all heartbroken.) Today, after finishing the mar...

One of my favorite authors right now is Cherie Priest . I am in the middle of two of her books (one I'm reading with Benjamin and one on...

5 months into the year, and I have finished 5 books from my To Be Read Pile Challenge List. The one that I thought might derail me, PrairyEr...

Hey, it is the end of the year, time for making lists. Since I don't have any pictures to share yet (they are off the camera, but not o...

Is there such a group? If not, there should be. I would join. No matter how much I tell myself that I am just stopping at a library to retur...

I read quite a few interesting non-fiction books in 2008, but not all of them are worthy of inclusion on a best of the year list. Here are ...

Since this is the time of year when the news media in all its various forms publishes top 10 lists of everything from best music to worst ne...