Month: May 2003
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BOOK: Personal History
I went to the library last weekend to (finally) return my three overdue books, and I was able to pick up one more, quickly. It’s Katharine Graham’s Personal History, her Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography written in 1998. Since I read Halberstam’s The Powers That Be earlier this year, I’m interested in another perspective on the rise…
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Isabel here for a visit
Fun for Benjamin, fun for Brooke, fun for me, and fun for Isabel (I hope). For Ben, Aunt Isabel is another active member of his audience. What’s he going to do when he has to share the stage with the new arrival in a few months? Anyway, she’s got him down in the yard weeding.
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Save it for later
I want to read this quick Emerging Technology post later, especially because it has a link to the conference presentations.
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BOOK: Desolation Island
Since reading the O’Brian biography, I’ve been of a mind to get back to the Aubrey-Maturin series. I had stopped with the fourth one, The Mauritius Command, a few years ago, simply because I didn’t have the next one in the series, Desolation Island. I’ve rectified that mistake, and I finished it on Wednesday. I…