Steinbeck!  I know, right!  Read it anyway, it might change your life!

And my response to her article.  (Follow the link to her article, read it, then go back and read mine — if you want to, or just read mine, whatever…)

I have some new stuff posted on Scribd.  I’d love to know what you think about it.

It’s a part of a series I’ve decided to work on that I’m calling (working title) Stories About Women.  It’s a collection of, gasp, stories about women.

I fucking loved this book and think you all should read it.  But don’t take my word for it… 

I love setting up book queues at Literary Bex.  It makes me feel accomplished.  Even though I’m still in my pajamas, not wearing a bra and haven’t showered or left the house all day I feel mightily accomplished.  I feel just wonderful because I have an awesome book queue.

It’s going to be Tom Stoppard starting tomorrow afternoon for a short run, then next week sometime the Pieces of Eight by Joshua Blair Delaney run will begin.  I’m so excited.  I just loved that book.  Made me want to be a pirate slash really glad I live in these modern times when a woman isn’t going to be accused of consorting with the Devil for speaking her mind.

Can’t believe I almost didn’t buy this book.

Wait for it, it’s coming up on Literary Bex very very soon.

I love everything I just wrote about this book.

On Literary Bex when I said I didn’t get any books for Christmas!  CourtinColorado sent me this amazing book/journal that I am just loving and want to create my own version of…. The True and the Questions: A Journal by Sabrina Ward Harrison.

Three of my favorite things are going on in this volume:

1. Journaling/Writing
2. Reading
3. Art

It really is quite lovely.  I’m enjoying the art and reading the bits she’s written and shared.  It’s really quite inspiring/moving/comforting.  Like reading Anais Nin’s diaries.

This is Best Friend’s blog post about the hip, artsy coffee shop that has inexplicably sprung up in my unhip, unartsy hometown (my hometown that doesn’t even have a fucking bookstore anymore).

But if you’re in the greater Central Massachusetts area or are going to be passing through sometime, during the holidays, or what have you, then you absolutely should check out The Coffee Loft on Lincoln St. in Marlborough.