The Proustian Force is With Me
As near as I can tell, I am the only person in the United States — perhaps in the Western...
Read Moreby Lisa | Dec 21, 2015 | arts & culture, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, reading | 3 |
As near as I can tell, I am the only person in the United States — perhaps in the Western...
Read Moreby Lisa | Nov 6, 2013 | arts & culture, my eccentric friends, reading | 3 |
If you are wondering why there is a sudden barrage of posts from me, and you didn’t see the...
Read Moreby Lisa | Jul 19, 2013 | arts & culture, reading | 4 |
I’ve spent most of my adult life avoiding Proust. As a Literature major, believe me, this...
Read MoreI rediscovered Audiobooks through Audible about a year ago when I decided to try to train myself...
Read Moreby Lisa | Dec 21, 2012 | arts & culture, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, reading | 3 |
Having just finished Trollope’s entire Palliser series on audiobook — six novels of...
Read Moreby Lisa | Dec 19, 2012 | arts & culture, reading | 1 |
I have no idea where this British saying came from. I suspect, like “give you the...
Read Moreby Lisa | Oct 6, 2012 | arts & culture, reading | 2 |
Actually, Anthony Trollope doesn’t come in dollops. He comes in great long sprawling novels...
Read Moreby Lisa | Nov 3, 2011 | my eccentric friends, reading | 9 |
We all want to know what REALLY happened in Abbottabad the night the Navy SEALs took down Bin...
Read MoreTruthfully, I don’t know if I was or not. But I wish I could be Shirley in some incarnation...
Read Moreby Lisa | Mar 25, 2010 | arts & culture, reading, Sonoma | 10 |
Back up in Sonoma, and after only three days away, I’m anxious to catch up on the news....
Read Moreby Lisa | Jan 28, 2010 | arts & culture, reading | 12 |
The announcement of J.D. Salinger’s death has me thinking about my favorite alienated,...
Read MoreA Yank. A Brit. Two Terriers. A Vineyard. And a Dream.
Being the true-life adventures of two city kids and two spoiled terriers as they transition to a life of winemaking and organic farming in Sonoma. You know Green Acres? It’s like that.
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