Remarkable Creatures ~ a teaser

Remarkable Creatures, a novel by Tracy Chevalier, was published this month.  These quotes show how one of the main characters reacts to remarks about the other main character.

Lord Henley (p. 105): "Besides which, Mary Anning is a female. She is a spare part. I have to represent her, as indeed I do many Lyme residents who cannot represent themselves."

Elizabeth Philpot (p. 106): I was furious at Lord Henley for riding roughshod over scientific discovery; for turning a mystery of the world into something banal and foolish; for throwing my sex back at me as something to be ashamed of. A spare part, indeed.

I'm really enjoying this book so far.

Blogiversary

It was three years ago today that I began this blog, posting about The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.  Two years ago I missed the date, thinking "last day of January," which was off by a day.  Last year I was sick, unable to breathe (or sleep) all night and on the morning of the 31st I called my friend Donna to take me to the emergency room.  I couldn't breathe, it turned out, because my heart wasn't pumping the fluid out of my lungs, and in February I had open heart surgery.

 

This is a photo Ginnie took while I was recuperating at her house after leaving the hospital.  In one hand is her cat Wootchie, which I was holding onto to keep her from sitting on my chest where there is now a thin white scar, even though that's what Wootchie wanted to do (she's a loving cat).  In my other hand is a paper on quantum physics, which Ginnie and I were reading because we are both nerds.  Notice I'm wearing a heavy jacket because, after surgery and losing 30 pounds, I seemed cold all the time, even in Ginnie's warm house (well, it was winter).  Below is my granddaughter with her baby Raegan, who was born three months after my surgery.

It's been an eventful three years! Now I'm ready to begin my fourth year as a book blogger.  Come along with me as we explore books and adventures and life.

And now it's slushy

My mailman delivered a book to my door, leaving slushy footprints in his wake. We doubled yesterday's snow before it started melting in 34*F weather this morning.

It's snowing

My cell phone camera didn't pick up the snowflakes drifting down, but it's still snowing.  And it started before 1:00 pm.

Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B flat major

My favorite music is Mozart's Bassoon Concerto (1774), and today is Mozart's birthday (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). Maybe you don't know I played the bassoon, back in high school and college, and was in the Chattanooga Youth Symphony once upon a time. I could NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, play like this:

Happy birthday, Virginia!

Today is Virginia Woolf's birthday. She was born January 25, 1882, when my grandmother was barely a year old. This photo is from 1939, the year before I was born. I was less than a year old when Virginia Woolf died on March 28, 1941. Did I tie us together a little bit with these random facts? Good, because I'm reading her book, A Room of One's Own, and just happened to discover that today is her birthday. I'm within twenty pages of the end and will review it soon.

Invisible Image ~ a meme

I wasn't tagged for this but, giving credit where credit's due, I found an "Invisible Image meme" online a couple of years ago (the post has disappeared). IMHO, it was too danged complicated anyway, so here's MY version, for which I am using this empty-frame photo. So, on with the show ... er, I mean ... meme.

What’s an Invisible Image?

We've all collected images to use later, many of which languish on our C-drives, collecting dust. Take a handful of those stored images, post them with a descriptive line (or not), and see if you can convince a few friends to do the same ... no tagging necessary, but a heartfelt plea that any readers who join the fun leave a comment here so I can come take a look at your stuff. And now my choices.  How would you caption these images?

 

Nothing's happening on the blogs tonight.

Space saver?

 

My TBR stack is getting heavy!

Gloating with immense satisfaction.