31 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Show us something soft.
Show us your spice rack.
I love my spice rack. I ordered it from McCormick, and it came pre-filled with spices. We've replaced most of them over the years, sometimes replacing something that we never use (curry, for instance), with some that are more useful to us. The ones with black caps are the newer ones, while the ones with the green caps are either those that came with the rack, or ones we replaced early on.When I ordered it, I had expected to be able to put it on the wall underneath one of the cabinets, but it wouldn't fit, and we ended up having to hang it on the wall over the sink, and right under the light. Not the best place for spices, I'm sure, but it's convenient, anyway.
Show us the last album you listened to.
This is what I was listening to in the car on the way to work this morning:
Show us some birds.
How about a bird? A sweet silver bird on a cell phone charm that I made.
Book: What book are you most ashamed you haven't read?
Submitted by Byrne.
I'm never ashamed not to have read something. Life's too short to be serious about things like that. I read for entertainment, for fun, or to learn something that I want to know. I would never force myself to read something that I didn't enjoy because I felt guilty or ashamed not to have read it. My reading time is short enough as it is. I only utilize it for relaxation and enjoyment.
I opened this up again to add that I'm also never ashamed to have read something. Like I said, I read for enjoyment, and occasionally enlightenment, but never (almost never) because I have to, or because it would be good for me or it's something I should (in someone else's opinion) read. I take kind of a perverse pleasure in the fact that when people take those long lists of the classics and annotate it with which ones they've read, I'm almost never read any of them.
I suppose my education is lacking, but really, who cares?
I'm reminded of being in Border's a few weeks ago, and waiting in line to buy something. There were two young (college age) clerks and a (older) customer having a lively discussion about literature. I can't remember now who they were discussing, Hemingway maybe--yeah, I think that's it. "For Whom the Bell Tolls." (Which I have not read, just for the record.) And then they segued into mythology or something -- the customer was apparently an English teacher. And they were giving absolutely no attention to the three or four people in line waiting.
Another (older) clerk came up to the register and asked the one who wasn't doing anything why she wasn't working, and she said she was on her break. Nice.
So the third clerk took over a register, called me up, and I bought my things (as I recall, it was a DVD of "School of Rock." As I went out the door, the security buzzer went off, and the guy rushed over to me and apologized. He said, "Sorry, I was distracted by the literary critics over there," and he rolled his eyes. I said, "Yeah, they have all the answers, don't they?" It was kind of a nice exchange, one of those that validates your own opinion of something when you're not sure anyone else shares it.
Show us a candle burning.
Book: Show us one of your favorite works of fiction.
This is my favorite novel of all time, and I would be hard-pressed to say exactly why. I love pretty much all of Anne Tyler's books, but this one struck a chord with me. It's about a woman (Delia) who has lived in the same house her whole life -- her father was a doctor with his office in the house, and she worked for him, and then she married the young doctor who took over her father's practice. They lived there with her father until his death, along with her unmarried sister and, eventually, her children.
She meets a young man in the grocery store one morning, and ends up having a brief, platonic affair with him. Then, on a family vacation to the beach, she spontaneously starts walking down the beach, and just keeps going, into a new life. Not a new life with the young man--he's out of the picture now--but a new life with herself, one in which she makes the decisions, not her husband.
I'm not sure why it affected me so strongly, but I think about the book a lot, and I've practically memorized it. It's a lovely book. Not everyone would probably love it as much as I do, but it's definitely worth reading.
Book: Show us the latest book you bought, borrowed or received.
The last book I bought was "Unshapely Things" by Mark Del Franco. I'm about halfway through it -- it's a detective mystery story, but the protagonist is a Druid, and the world he lives in is populated with dwarves, fairies and elves. Somewhat reminiscent of the Harry Dresdon series by Jim Butcher. This is a first novel, and very good. I ran across it accidentally while browsing at Barnes & Noble on Saturday.
