The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer Fiction: St. Martin’s Press ISBN #978-0-312-58749-9 384 pages Release Date: February 16, 2010 Many thanks to Michael Palmer for offering this giveaway of his newest novel. The winner will receive an autographed copy of The Last Surgeon which will ship directly from the author. I will be reading and [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross – Book Review
Life on this earth was irredeemably tainted by strife; in this world, wherever people mingled, producing new descendants, allowing themselves to be drawn together by physical love and loving their own flesh, sorrows of the heart and broken expectations were bound to occur as surely as the frost appears in the autumn. Both life and [...]
Sunday Salon – December 20, 2009
December 20, 2009 11:00 AM Good morning, fellow readers. I almost did not write a post for today’s Salon. I admit that it has been hard to be motivated to do much of anything after the loss of our sweet Argus on Thursday – but, I also know that doing things helps the healing. Later [...]
Reading for a Cure for Childhood Cancer
January 1 – December 31, 2010 Did you know that: The risk of any single individual developing cancer by age 20 is approximately one in 330 In the United States, approximately 10,500 children under age 15 and 3,700 adolescents ages 15-19 are newly diagnosed with cancer each year. That is roughly the equivalent of two [...]
Good-Bye to our Funny Boy…
October 16, 1999 – December 17, 2009 Today Kip and I said good-bye to Argus – our sweet, loving, and funny boy. Despite our attempts to make him more comfortable, he declined rapidly and was not eating. This morning he vomited every time he tried to drink water. Always a hard decision when to help [...]
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wife – Book Review
About him she would never be wiser of stronger. She might strive to seem capable and fearless, pious and strong in her marriage with him – but in truth, she wasn’t. Always, always there was the yearning lament inside her: She wanted to be his Kristin from the woods of Gerdarud. – from Kristin Lavransdatter, [...]
Update on Argus
Today Argus had an ultrasound done to see if this, along with the blood work we had done, could pinpoint what was going on with him. We now have a definitive diagnosis and it is not good. Argus has primary malignant lymphoma with metastasis to liver, spleen and several other organs and tissues. The liver [...]
Mailbox Monday – December 14, 2009
Welcome to another installment of Mailbox Monday, hosted each week by Marcia at The Printed Page. This event encourages readers to share the books which arrive at their home each week. Visit Marcia’s post today to leave a link to your post, or get links to other bloggers’ mailboxes. This week I found some great [...]
Sunday Salon – December 13, 2009
December 13, 2009 9:00 AM Good morning – it is a cold, dreary day here in Northern California. It has been raining non stop for the last 24 hours and is supposed to continue through this evening. At some point today, Kip and I are heading into town to do some Christmas shopping – with [...]
Chunkster Challenge 2010
February 1, 2010 – January 31, 2011 Many thanks to Dana who has hosted this challenge for the past couple of years and has generously handed over the reins to me in 2010. I am keeping most of Dana’s rules and definitions…Why? Because why fix something that isn’t broken?!??! To read all about the challenge, [...]
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