The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved

So as I passed the umpteenth book under the scanner this afternoon it occurred to me it might be fun to write about the oddest, most unusual or most interesting book that passes through my hands each day. Thus I bring you The Thin Red Line:
Like the worst of cafeteria fare it looked [...]

Crazy In Alabama

Thursday, 28 June 2007, 22:52 | Category : Book Reviews, Books, Fiction
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So I finally finished Crazy in Alabama. Loved it. Lucille, a frustrated and emotionally abused housewife in Cornelia Alabama finally gets fed up with her husband Chester and spikes his coffee with DeaCon rat poison. He keels over dead and she cuts his head off and puts [...]

The Commute

Thursday, 28 June 2007, 0:38 | Category : Uncategorized
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I am so looking forward to having my regular gig at Lakewood, though I am realizing I will miss working so much at Eatonville, which is about 20 miles south of here, along the road to Mt. Rainier. Once you get out of the strip mall exurbs, it is rural and [...]

I got the job

Monday, 25 June 2007, 19:30 | Category : Uncategorized
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After nearly a dozen interviews, eight months as a substitute and umpteen books checked in and shelved, today I had yet another interview at 9:30 am during an 8-3:30 shift. At 2:30 they called me into the supervisor’s office to tell me I am hired. YAY. Naomi, the human [...]

From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

So it’s Sunday and I am off and I should be doing laundry but am blogging instead. I always thought of audiobooks as being for the old and blinding, the Large Print crowd and am always at little amazed at audibooks for children. Yesterday I checked in the audiobook [...]