C: Where’d you get that skillet?
Me: At that store that’s exactly like Linens ‘n’ Things, but the other one.
T: Skillets ‘n’ Things?!
Me: Uh no. You know…
C: Ha! No, I know, it’s called…
T: LINENS ‘N’ SKILLETS ?!?!
[queue hysterical laughter]
Bought:
But this video is hilariously fantastic.
Bought:
this entire thing just makes me so, so sad.
Seriously: WHY?
Sincerely,
someone who used to love you,
Duff.
I know Lady Gaga is completely nutters crazy but her music IS indeed fantastic and here’s how you can tell.
An acoustic cover of Bad Romance by Lissie.
A (piano) acoustic cover of Paparazzi by some insanely talented 12 year old boy.
Oh. YES.
I dip myself in books like feet in the ocean, and when I emerge I am dripping with ideas as icy as the Atlantic.
-written by my friend Meera.
“Airplanes” – B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams of Paramour.
You know how I love my rap and my pop all mixed up together.
I remembered really loving The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, although I apparently read those well before I started keeping track for this site (or its previous incarnations) and I was super excited to hear Willis had a new book out! (And thanks for the bday present, Cat!)
She falls somewhere between the Diana Gabaldon Outlander books (with the time travel, of course) and Maureen McHugh (more sci/fi fantasty, less romance than Gabaldon) in my mind.
I felt this one was a bit slowgoing at first, there are SO many characters to set up, in different places both in space and time. But about halfway through I found myself quite eagerly turning the pages and then…OH NO IT’S BEEN TURNED INTO A TWO-PART BOOK AND THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST HALF NOOOOOOOOO
Yeah, that’s putting it mildly. Apparently part 2 “All Clear” will be out in October.
Really cool intertwining of historians from the future (2060) sent back to research WWII England. The contretemps of trying to find the right outfits, accents, accessories, etc., is quite entertaining. The effect of them navigating the past, trying to observe with the minimum of involvement and no interaction; can that ever really be possible? There have been a bunch of History teachers-to-be in my classes this year and we’ve done a lot of talking about “historical fact” and it’s really interesting to read this with that type of semantics in mind.
I was really psyched about who arrives in the last chapter (or who I think it is that arrives). I hope to see more of that character in book 2…
This is not an unbiased review. I have been friends with Rachael for years.
Be that as it may, I absolutely loved this book.
Now, this IS a romance genre novel and it does abide by many of those conventions. It’s not a mystery who’s going to wind up with who, or even whether they’ll wind up together. Rather the mystery is in how is that going to happen? How will they get past their irks and irritations and hangups and baggage? How will they become the right person for each other?
That said, there is a lot going on here: the integration of knitting lore and farmers meeting ’round the breakfast table at the diner, as well as a mystery popping up from someone’s past…
Abigail and Cade seem very real and very human and very connected. Their interactions have just the right touch.
I’m so proud of my friend that she wrote this lovely book and I’m so excited for her success!