The great thing about being unemployed — okay, one of the great things — is the amount of time it frees up for reading. I’m oh-so-bookish and it’s been really nice to finally plow through the piles of reading material that’s stacked up next to the bed. And one of the fun things about being bloggy is that I’m on the receiving end of lots of media — I get books and CDs and music to review.… continued…
Sunsets and Shooting Stars: A Cape Cod Memoir
This morning our house is chock-a-block with jetlagged Austrians, they’re stacked like cord wood down in the basement. (If you’ve been to Austria, you know they are very skilled at stacking. They are a stacking people, a nation of stackers. ) Last night, we took them for pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) which I swear is good for jetlag and just about anything else, After pho we headed down to Alki Beach where we came across the sight of a blazing beach house.… continued…
Disclaimer: As you probably guessed, Holt sent me this book.
Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran have a crazy idea. They are going to race each other around the world, one going east, the other west, and whoever makes it first wins a very expensive bottle of scotch. Oh, part of the challenge? No airplanes. They have somehow managed to convince their publisher – Holt – that it’s a good idea to fund this project in exchange for a book about their adventures when they’re done.… continued…
