Wishing you a lovely Easter

ee cummings "i thank you God for this most amazing"


i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Kingsolver, getting there

I've been reading the rest of Kingsolver, that's where I've been lately.

She's such an artist. I've been skimming through everything I can find, snorkeling, figuring out where I will scuba dive later. Some of her work I like, some doesn't interest me, but all is marvelously well-written.

Now if this were a recipe blog, I could just whip something out so I'd have something to post. But it doesn't really work that way with books.

Amazon Used Book Buying is Very Very Dangerous

When I was writing my thesis, Amazon came up with One-Click buying. One click, it shipped. It was very dangerous and I had to be careful. In the end, I bought a bunch of books I wanted/needed for my writing, and it was a good thing because the darn thing took two years to write and I was glad I just owned the books and didn't have to keep pleading my renewal case to the university library in another state.

But I've discovered something even more dangerous on Amazon---buying used books. My voracious reader son wanted the Brainwaves books (think Where's Waldo, but about science, really good stuff) about space, the body, and chemistry. I decided to just buy them because they are enthralling and informative---the kind of books I like to own. I didn't want to pay full price, so I gave used book buying a try. The prices were fabulous. $2 plus $4 in shipping. Seriously? Much better than full price. I bought three---one was "like new", one was "very good" and one was "acceptable". All came in excellent condition.

Dangerous, very dangerous. I save money by paying less, but spend money by buying more. For less. You see the problem.

Caution! Caution!

13 year old boy book suggestions

I found this link on the blog Clover Lane, with lots of suggestions for "13 year old boy books." Mostly, this post is for me so that I'll remember where it is and where I put it.

Here, Deborah, you put that list right here.

http://www.memoriesoncloverlane.com/2013/02/book-help.html