Posted in books, political on June 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Walking the dog this evening, we passed a house with an anti-war sign in the yard and a Prius in the driveway. We’ve walked by that house a million times, so normally it blends in with all the other left-leaning cues in my ‘hood. But today I chuckled because I realized that next door to [...]
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Day 4: A Present
Originally uploaded by Kristina B.
M bought me this in anticipation of The Golden Compass, which I’m very excited about. Pullman is a prominent British atheist. His books are… well, I guess sort of harry potter-esque, but better. Have I mentioned how excited I am about this movie? It’s… [...]
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Posted in books, tagged harrypotter on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Amusing tales re: the latest Harry Potter book:
We did not pre-order our books. Yesterday afternoon, we went to Borders and Barnes and Noble and got wrist bands and a voucher respectively (BookPeople sold out days ago).
We didn’t bother to even try getting books until well after midnight. Borders was moving at a crawl, [...]
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