>is back with a fourth chapter, and there’s a bit of a rabbit hole . . . . Any theories as to what exactly is going on here would be welcome.
>Tugging on the leash
>Unless there’s an abandoned chicken bone at stake, Buster has never been one for much straining at the leash. But where he used to not mind being thus tethered, I’m finding that he, at sixteen or so (we’ll never know for sure), seems to welcome the security. He now blinks and stumbles in the morning [...]
>I can totally see Angelina Jolie in that part, actually.
>The news about the imminent resurrection of Dagny Taggart now completes my journey in my own personal wayback machine; thank goodness that Front Street’s Stephen Roxburgh today talked me into buying a Kindle* so I can move into the future. I’m taking another venture into the brave new world tomorrow, with my first experience of [...]
>My new Mac is making me do it.
>I really don’t have a horse in this one.
>It’s more than horse books
>There’s a piece on the International Children’s Digital Library in today’s Boston Globe that inspired me to take another browse over there. The ICDL is currently running a bunch of features on Mongolia, which fits in nicely with my Silk Road kick–I’m reading Colin Thubron’s Shadow of the Silk Road and listening to Sainkho Namtchylak, [...]
>Burning down the house?
>Amazon’s new e-book reader, Kindle, is here. I have great hopes for e-books, read them regularly (via Miss Palm) and Kindle has a lot of neat features, mostly stemming from its free (if limited) wireless access to the internet. But two things are stopping me from wanting one: it’s ugly and it doesn’t have a [...]
>We’ll come to you
>Ten Cents a Dance
>Make it Stop!
>SLJ, I love you. I happily worked with Lillian Gerhardt and Trev Jones for years, and I did some of my best writing in your pages. And Little, Brown, too, where I published my sole book for young people and whose upcoming offerings include the extremely terrific The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian [...]

