the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

reading

  • alabama’s library woes continue.

    I have been waiting to update on my state’s library issues because there has been so much confusion – and very little clarity – since I last wrote. However, I will mention that there was a library board unjustly unseated in the next county over from us, Shelby County, a few weeks ago, in a… Read more

  • banned book friday #12 and a regular book report too.

    This week, I have several books to discuss, one of them from our banned books project and the others just several good ones I haven’t gotten a chance to share. First, for this week’s banned book – my plan was to read Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, but, in the chaos of my plague and… Read more

  • banned book friday #11 (a little late) – harper lee and toni morrison.

    This week’s Banned Book Friday post is a bit behind – like most everything has been with my pneumonia days – but here we are now, with both of this week’s books rereads from my school days – Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. First, I remember reading Morrison’s Song… Read more

  • banned book friday #9 – the remaining tolkien and more vonnegut, all good things this week.

    This week’s Banned Book reading has been pleasurable all around. First, I finished J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy with The Two Towers and The Return of the King. I know I’m repeating myself from last week but this series is one I wish everyone would read: if you haven’t read LOTR, please consider adding it… Read more

  • banned book friday #8 – some faulkner and the beginnings of lotr.

    This has been an extra puny week – even by my usual spoonie standards – but I have some happy things to share this Banned Books Friday. In what will hopefully be a two post day, first, I’ll pass along the report on this week’s banned book reading. Then, later this evening, I plan to… Read more

  • banned books friday #7, a goodreads milestone, and an overdue regular book report.

    As I shared in my post early this morning, this week has been a gnarly one with spoonie issues. However, it is also Banned Books Friday – and I have been trying to write a regular book report all week as well – so it is time to leave the sickness discussions behind for awhile… Read more

  • banned books friday #6 – my first ever dnf & a classic reread to share.

    This week’s Banned Books Friday is different for sure. My hold on Nabokov’s Lolita came up at the library – so it was this week’s first read. I have not read it before. Like most of us, I am familiar with the subject matter, a adult with sexual attraction to teenaged girls. Beyond that, I did… Read more

  • banned books friday #5 – two enjoyable reads.

    This week, for our Banned Books Friday report – actually being written on Friday, stop the presses 😉 – I revisited two books on our list that I read when I was much younger – Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Though they are completely different – and we… Read more

  • celebrating international children’s book day.

    As usual, I am running behind and chasing myself and so I am just now getting to International Children’s Book Day, which was on April 2nd. I adore children’s books and have a collection of them that is still growing. In honor of International Children’s Book Day, I decided to share eight of my favorite… Read more

  • our week two banned book friday report (a little late on a sick day)

    Last week, I started my project of reading through our banned book list – including the rereads of classics that I haven’t encountered since my school days – to report on them as I make way through the list. (I’m reporting a bit late today – early Saturday morning – as this infernal flare had… Read more