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Breaking Dawn: a rambling open letter to Stephenie Meyer
3 Comments Published by Sid August 5th, 2008 in books.Hi there, Steph.
I just finished reading your fourth Twilight Saga novel, Breaking Dawn, and figured I’d drop you a line.
First, kudos: I’m a thirty-year-old woman who recently turned to your series for some much needed literary R&R. You’ve managed to successfully capture and hold my attention without employing tawdry sex, sidesplitting humor, or culinary memoir […]
At the heart of home.
0 Comments Published by Sid March 23rd, 2008 in apartment life, OPP (other people's posts), shopping, books, bargains, cooking.I started this post weeks ago, actually, and never got around to finishing it. I do that a lot these days. I may finally be over this whole blog thing, it seems. But I wanted to finish it, so I have, more or less. *shrugs*
My mornings these days are simple. I wake, roll directly from […]
It cut me deep. It cut me real deep.
5 Comments Published by Sid March 6th, 2007 in paycheck, beauty, books, recipes.Hot: Pub I wrote for last year which hadn’t been responding to my emails called me today to discuss future opportunities!
Not: The editor proceeded to compliment me on an article someone else wrote. I’m not even sure she meant to call me. I envision a scenario in which she had two columns on a note […]
Today, I worked a double shift.
14 hours.
Whew.
I was so busy…I read a novel.
An entire novel.
Before the first shift was up.
Yep. Only 7 more days of this job. Not so bad, really. It’s kind of awesome, actually. I did buy all those books figuring this would happen, after all. I’ve got three more to get through. […]
Viv’s wish is my command:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’’t you dare dig for that ““cool”” or ““intellectual”” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just […]




