A Wandering Reader

Prospect Park is beautiful and peaceful this time of year. That is all.

“Of course it’s exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.” —Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions 

Sorry if the blog was quiet last week. I promise I wasn’t sitting on the couch watching The West Wing on Netflix (although I do that a lot). Nope, I… WENT TO IRELAND!

I have been SO EXCITED to share an awesome little book town in upstate NY that we stumbled upon by accident. Last winter, Eric and I had booked a bed and breakfast weekend in a neighboring Catskills town. The owners of the B&B mentioned that there was a book village (say whaaa)

I’ve had Sophie’s Choice on my shelf for awhile – a very used 80’s style copy featuring young Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. I have no idea when I bought it. I was recently reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother’s house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always

I’ve been holding on to this link for awhile because The Lonely Island made a video about…wait for it…semicolons! It’s a must-watch, but please stay with it to the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw

Well, I’m only one day late on this.               Literary Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, did an AMA on Reddit! I’d like to meet the person who doesn’t like getting a handwritten letter in the mail. Letters are awesome! We should write more letters!

I read this novel a few years ago when it first came out and re-read it recently because I wanted to review it for the blog. In case you’ve read it and were confused by the ending, or if you’re going to read it, I’ll let you in on a secret: it’s

I’ve been sitting around nursing a cold for the past few days. Something has been going around, since most of my Facebook feed is sick as well. Combined with fall coming, this pretty much sums up how I’ve been feeling the past few days: