Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead Someone had recommended this book to me years ago, but it wasn’t widely available. Now it’s even on audible. The title is pretty accurate. This book talks about the senses of birds: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and magnetic navigation. Good parts about …
Jul 22
Book Review: Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë I was supposed to have read this in high school, and I read just enough of it at the time to go “boooooarrrring!!” and fake my way through the rest of the semester. So now that I’m an adult and more tolerant of difficult literature, I decided to give it …
Jul 21
Red Glass Pitcher
This is the last of my glass-class pieces from this winter. I’ve been parceling them out so there’s a variety. I don’t know if I’ll take glass class again next winter. It’s expensive, but not completely affordable. But I was so busy this winter that the time was definitely an issue. When I described …
Jul 18
Blown Away
I’m happy you can see the color in this one. It doesn’t show up in the original paper version.
Jul 17
Book Review: I’ll Be Right There
I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-sook Shin This is the kind of book people think of when they think of a novel. Poignant and somber, it deals with loss, grief, memory, and the futility of making promises about “someday.” It’s also depressing as hell. Lots of people die in this, either by suicide, homicide that …