unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Feb 8, 2012, 9:32 am
I’m a creature of habit, I admit it. For example, I’m an addict of crime fiction. I can’t seem to get out of the groove, no matter how hard I try. Also when I find an author I like, I read a group of his or her books in a row; case in point, last year, I tore through several Kathy Reichs book...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Feb 5, 2012, 8:47 am
No, I don’t know where I’m going But I sure know where I’ve been So sings David Coverdale in “Here I Go Again,” and so it goes with me to use a more literary reference than Whitesnake. I don’t know exactly what my next read will be after today, but I know I’ve finished six books so f...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Feb 4, 2012, 7:43 am
Sooooo looking back at this first month of 2012, how did I do with my goals for the year? Let’s see. I only had three. That should be easy, right? Walk daily: The good news is that I did walk more than I did last month. However, I didn’t walk every day. For example, yesterday I drove to work be...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Feb 1, 2012, 8:00 am
For the month of January, I finished six books: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, Goldfinger by Ian Fleming as narrated by Simon Vance, Cover Her Face by P.D. James, Laura by Vera Caspray, The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø, Suitable For Giving: A Collection of Wit With A Side of Wry by Jayne M...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 31, 2012, 8:00 am
When I learned this past weekend from Serena that Lu, Kelly, and Eva had issued the following challenge: post about poetry once a month, on the last Tuesday of the month, for 2012, I knew I had to participate.  However, I didn’t know what I was going to write about poetry. So I’ve decided t...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 29, 2012, 10:38 am
Poetry and I have had an on-and-off again relationship since my days in college. It all started with a class on contemporary poetry, then continued with another class on poetry writing and finally ended (in college anyway) with an independent class with me penning my own poetry. I even submitted a...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 26, 2012, 9:45 pm
This week’s Patron of the Week comes from the Land of Neverending-Suspense. Please give a warm welcome to Mrs. Don’t-Get-Me-Started-About-Obama. She gave me an old, beat-up quarter to pay a fine, and I couldn’t help but make fun of it. “Is this really a quarter? I’m not sure because I ca...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 25, 2012, 12:02 pm
So on Monday, I finished my third book of the year: Cover Her Face, the first in the Adam Dalgliesh mystery series, by P.D. James. The other two were Goldfinger by Ian Fleming as narrated by Simon Vance and The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Yesterday, I began what should be my fourth bo...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 22, 2012, 10:11 am
Today I’ll be continuing Cover Her Face, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery, by P.D. James. This past week, I finished my second book of the year,   Goldfinger by Ian Fleming as narrated by Simon Vance. I listened to it as part of the Shaken, Not Stirred audiobook challenge, and took part in a Twi...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 20, 2012, 6:56 pm
I remember the first time I heard her. It was on a blues show on a radio station from Syracuse. This was the song: Immediately I was in love and had to buy The Essential Etta James, a two-disc collection of her music from Chess Records — a collection that I recorded and re-recorded on cassette ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 18, 2012, 2:42 pm
I’ll start where I am: listening to Goldfinger by Ian Fleming as narrated by Simon Vance. I’m listening to it as part of the Shaken, Not Stirred audiobook challenge, with a discussion to take place on Twitter this Saturday, Jan. 21, at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time followed by the movie Goldfinger. ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jan 17, 2012, 6:42 am
Last night after listening to a playlist by the editors of MOG on the Martin Luther King Jr., I decided to create my own, which I called “For The Rev. Martin Luther King…Sing.” Naturally at the top of the list is this one: Maybe not so natural, but still one of my favorite P.E. songs is this...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Oct 13, 2011, 8:35 pm
…and to paraphrase Frank, and so this blog faces the final curtain. Last month, as my life underwent a couple of changes: Resigning from my job as a newspaper correspondent and thus ending 15 years in the newspaper business as my hours increase at the library where I work, Giving up volunteering...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Oct 2, 2011, 12:14 am
... ve now read 41 books for the year  as this past month ... from Netflix, but some also from the library: Sports Night, Cheers, King ... the Dead, South Park, Futurama, The Towering Inferno, The West Wing, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Larry Sanders, Midsomer ... Bare Bones by K...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Oct 1, 2011, 9:27 am
Am I ever gonna change Will I always stay the same If I say one thing Then do the other It’s the same old song That goes on forever… “Am I ever gonna change,” Extreme I’ve always loved this song, because too often it captures the struggle I’m caught in, or maybe I should say in pa...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 28, 2011, 7:45 pm
Well, it seems like I’m averaging about a book a week anymore. This past week’s book:  The Guards, the first in the Jack Taylor series, by Ken Bruen. This coming week’s book, with which I’m almost done, is the second one in the series, The Killing of the Tinkers. And that review/overview of...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 25, 2011, 11:25 am
Remember that time I said I was going to read my own books for the rest of the year? No? Well…I did. So how’d that work out for you? Like shite. Thanks for asking. The problem is I work in a library, so the plan was all but gone in the loo from word one. To wit, this past week I picked up ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 23, 2011, 8:37 am
Each Friday, I post Flashback Friday, where I use St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Examen as a guide and usually ask the following questions: For what are you least grateful this past week? For what are you most grateful this past week? Least/most grateful Unlike with U2, I came to discover R.E.M. sever...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 21, 2011, 4:26 pm
The 34th episode of The West Wing (in Season 2) is called “The Drop In” because in that episode Toby adds a part to a speech written by Sam without Sam or any of the press corps knowing about it in advance, a la dropping it in. Likewise, this week’s episode of Midweek Review also is just being...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 18, 2011, 10:16 am
On Thursday morning, I had the books and bookmarks (darts) pictured above waiting for me in a box on my front porch when I opened the door. Michelle at That’s What She Read sent me them as part of her Read My Own Books Month event last month. I had heard of the Bass book (I think I had seen it at ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 18, 2011, 9:26 am
For today’s Sunday Salon (well, the first of two parts, second part soon to follow this one) I’m combining the last two topics for this past week’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week posts. So without further ado, here goes: Book bloggers blog because we love reading. Has book blogging changed th...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 16, 2011, 8:10 am
Each Friday, I post Flashback Friday, where I use St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Examen as a guide and usually ask the following questions: For what are you least grateful this past week? For what are you most grateful this past week? Least/most grateful Again this week, as I have done several times i...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 14, 2011, 2:03 pm
Today is the third day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week, with the theme of Cultivating a Community of Bloggers and Readers. Today’s topic is How Do You Do Community? The world of book blogging has grown enormously and sometimes it can be hard to find a place. Share your tips for finding and keep...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 13, 2011, 1:25 am
Today is the second day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week, with the theme of Cultivating a Community of Bloggers and Readers. This is the day we post the blogger interview swap we did. My interview partner was Emily of Emily’s Reading Room. Here’s my interview with her, and here is her interview...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 12, 2011, 4:16 pm
Today begins Book Blogger Appreciation Week and as usual, I’m behind on getting my first post– or any post– up for that matter. However, I’m here and as we begin, we’ve been “encouraged to highlight a couple of bloggers that have made book blogging a unique experience for” us. I admit ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 10, 2011, 9:01 am
I was in three states that morning…and for the next few days, and the states weren’t New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Denial. Dazed. Confused. That morning, I had tunnel vision as I was the editor of a (now defunct) weekly newspaper in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, almost 200 miles to the eas...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 5, 2011, 10:04 am
I shared these on Facebook, but since they were ignored there, I thought I’d share them here so they can be ignored here too. Without further ado, here they are, starting with No. 5: Now for something a bit more serious, No. 4: No. 3: No. 2, from our friends in Canada: No. 1: Now while searc...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Sep 4, 2011, 8:34 am
My plan for August was to read (mostly) my own books in August as suggested by Michelle at That’s What She Read. As reported this past Wednesday, I didn’t do as well as I had planned, but I did get a few of my own books read. Now I’m on to September, which thankfully, according to Pam and thre...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 31, 2011, 12:27 pm
So as of today, I’ve now read 37 books for the year  and for this past month, as part of my participation in Read My Own Books Month as hosted by Michelle at That’s What She Read, I read four out of six of my own books: Honey in His Mouth by Lester Dent Say It With Bullets by Richard Powell...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 28, 2011, 10:28 am
Graphic for button from New Media Consortium on Flickr For those of you expecting this week’s Sunday Salon, I’m cheating and combining my Patron of the Week post with The Sunday Salon. This week’s Patron of the Week comes from the Land of Cotton, Look Away, Look Away, Look Away, with the emp...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 24, 2011, 9:39 am
So as of today, I’ve now read 35 books for the year. I took a break from the Read My Own Books Month as hosted by Michelle at That’s What She Read and from my reading of Hard Case Crime books with The Fifth Witness, the fourth Mickey Haller book, by Michael Connelly. In short, it was a page...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 22, 2011, 4:37 pm
Back in December of last year, I announced the return of Motivation Monday, which originally was to help motivate me and you in terms of physical well-being, both diet and exercise. At the time, I committed myself to writing a Motivation Monday post each Monday with a “no” and a “yes” to he...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 21, 2011, 8:37 am
My plan to read (mostly) my own books in August as suggested by Michelle at That’s What She Read has fallen flat. I’ve only read two of my own books: Honey In His Mouth by Lester Dent Say It With Bullets by Richard Powell Luckily, Pam of Bookalicio.us along with three other bloggers is hosting�...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 18, 2011, 7:39 am
Click image to be taken to posts on all of my pet peeves. Without further adieu, my Pet Peeve #6 is Touchscreens. I don’t care what they’re on, from cell  phones to e-readers to — now I even hear from my own father who just got one — computer monitors (GASP! Ach, du lieber Gott in Himmel,...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 17, 2011, 1:14 pm
So as of today, I’ve now read 34 books for the year. I’m still plugging away at reading my own books as part of Read My Own Books Month as hosted by Michelle at That’s What She Read. I just finished Say It With Bullets by Richard Powell, another one of the Hard Case Crime books, on Monday. ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 14, 2011, 10:17 am
Last week  I intended to start my plan to read (mostly) my own books in August as suggested by Michelle at That’s What She Read (to join us, here’s the link). I also intended to dive into a pile of Hard Case Crime books headfirst this week, starting with Honey In His Mouth by Lester Dent, ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 10, 2011, 10:06 am
So as of today, I’ve now read 32 books for the year. Last week I finished Get Real, the 15th and final in the Dortmunder series, by Donald E. Westlake and then embarked on Read My Own Books Month as hosted by Michelle at That’s What She Read. So how’s that going for me? On Sunday, I gave a...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 7, 2011, 10:50 am
Last Sunday I intended to finish a series, the 14th and the 15th book in the John Dortmunder series, What’s So Funny? and Get Real, by Donald E. Westlake. Then this past Monday I intended to start my plan to read (mostly) my own books in August as suggested by Michelle at That’s What She Read (...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 4, 2011, 7:25 am
Graphic for button from New Media Consortium on Flickr This week’s Patron of the Week comes from the Land of High School Classics. Please say hello to Ms. Looking-For-A-Book-But-Can’t-Remember-The-Author-Or-The-Title. Like most patrons, she was looking for a book. Like most patrons, she didn...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Aug 3, 2011, 3:10 pm
So as of today, I’ve now read 31 books for the year. By this weekend, that number should be 32, as I hope to finish Get Real, the 15th and final in the Dortmunder series, by Donald E. Westlake…and I’ll be starting on a new venture for the month of August. That venture, as I have mentioned pre...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jul 13, 2011, 9:20 am
Even though this week has been hella busy, I finally did manage to finish a book last night, The Road to Ruin by Donald E. Westlake, the 11th in the series about Dortmunder, the hapless burglar. Last week I mentioned how Westlake is a comfort author and this book didn’t disappoint in that regard. ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jul 10, 2011, 9:53 am
On the reading front, I finished Fatal Voyage, the fourth in the Bones/Temperance Brennan series, by Kathy Reichs and started The Road To Ruin, the 11th in the Dortmunder series, by Donald E. Westlake. I would have made better progress on the book had I not prematurely returned it to the library on ...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jul 8, 2011, 9:12 am
Sometimes you can’t make up these things. Yesterday while visiting a bathroom stall at our local Rite-Aid (in a small town in northcentral Pennsylvania), I happened across the piece of artwork above and the commentary was classic too: I have no idea why the original artist put the word “South�...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jul 6, 2011, 9:44 am
So as of today, I’ve now read 25 books for the year. I probably could have had 26 by today, but yesterday afternoon when I went to work at the library, I accidentally returned the latest book I was reading. I got home, planning possibly to finish the book because even though I wasn’t that far al...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jul 4, 2011, 10:20 am
As bloggers in America, we have to compose certain posts and today as an American, this is one of them. I’m not complaining. I’m just stating a fact. You can’t be an American blogger without mentioning these on your blog: New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, Easter, The Fourth of July, Sept. 11, T...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jul 3, 2011, 10:26 am
On the reading front, I’m still working my way through Fatal Voyage, the fourth in the Bones/Temperance Brennan series, by Kathy Reichs as mentioned last week. It’s not that it’s that long or that it’s that bad. It’s just that I’m easily distracted by Netflix, Facebook, Twitter…oh, and...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jun 30, 2011, 8:22 am
What am I blogging for? I’ve asked this question before and given an answer in a semi-tongue-in-cheek fashion. Now two recent posts, one by Kim Tracy Prince at House of Prince called “The Cranky Veteran Post” and another by Jennifer Brown at Tribal Blogs called “Did Facebook and Twitter ki...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jun 28, 2011, 3:12 pm
I don’t know why it took me this long, but today it finally sunk in: When times go bad When times go rough Won’t you lay me down in tall grass And let me do my stuff Whaaaa? Really: “my stuff.”? Wow. I’m just flabbergasted here…and talk about sexist. Why can’t the other person (m...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jun 27, 2011, 5:15 pm
Each Monday (or at least once a month, as it has been going this year), I write a Motivation Monday post, which is to help motivate me and you in terms of physical well-being, both diet and exercise. For 2011, I also am including a “no” and a “yes” to help motivate us toward being physically...
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unfinishedperson u. posted an article on An Unfinished Person In This Unfinished Universe - Jun 26, 2011, 10:07 am
Today is going to be a combo post of The Sunday Salon and Library Loot (in the tradition of Eva at A Striped Armchair). I didn’t plan it this way, but it sort of happened on Friday as I was working at the library… *cue Wayne’s World flashback music* (I spent half an hour to find the sound cli...
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