The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Read: January 2009
Description:
Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father’s bookshop and finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved authors, Vida Winter. Gravely ill, Vida wants to recount her life story to Margaret before it is too [...]
Happy “Halfway to the Weekend” day. Friday cannot come soon enough! I found this quote today on Twitter. I believe it was Real Simple that “tweeted” it.
“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.” –George Bernard Shaw
This past Christmas, I received two tickets to see Ira Glass at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. If you don’t know who Ira Glass is, then you probably aren’t familiar with his award winning radio show and the number one ranked podcast on iTunes, This American Life. The show is a bit hard to describe, [...]
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Read: December 2008
Description:
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having [...]
Happy Hump Day! Here is a little nugget of inspiration to mull over. I think the following quote is quite poignant, especially given who said it.
“There are two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is miracle and one as though everything is a miracle.” –Albert Einstein
