Connie Willis
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Laughter Is The Best Medicine
Sometimes you just need to laugh, not smile slightly, not feel vaguely amused, but really laugh with that can’t catch your breath, might wake the whole house up laughter. The kind of laughter that makes everyone ask you what is so funny, the kind that makes your whole day brighter. What do you read when you need a funny book? One book that is guaranteed to make me laugh until I have tears streaming down my cheeks is Our Hearts Were Young And Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough. It is the account of their European tour in the 1920s. “We had been planning the trip for over…
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Books I Bought
I mentioned recently that I went on a bit of a book buying spree. I ordered them online and they have slowly been trickling in. It makes getting the mail much more exciting. I miss the days of real letters when you never knew what was going to be in your mailbox and sometimes it was something nice, not just bills. Ordering books recreates that feeling. Maybe I should find a pen pal, it would be cheaper. But then I wouldn’t have the books. You can’t have everything. On that insightful thought let’s see what I got. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I mentioned this book…
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In Case of Emergency
I was lying in bed the other night wondering what five books I would take with me if I was stranded on a deserted island. As you do. Of course, this led me to wonder how I ended up on the island. Was my ship captured by pirates and after I spurned the captain’s advances, I was put ashore where I stood gallantly waving farewell with my trunk by my side? (the trunk has to be there to contain the books.) Was my ship broken apart on the rocks after a day and night of a storm such as was never known in that latitude before? I made it ashore…
