Cornelia Read's Blog – March 2007 Archive (4)

I Married a Republican

By Cornelia

Considering that my childhood image of the Grand Old Party was that its members spent their abundant free time driving down America's freeways in huge cars, throwing their empty bottles of bourbon out the window while telling jokes about poor people, it seems counter-intuitive, at best, to have married one of them.… Continue

Added by Cornelia Read on March 29, 2007 at 9:11am — 4 Comments

D'yer Mak'er

Here's what I love most about Google: it lets you look up the derivation of things that you have always wondered about, and also quickly settle bets at dinner parties. Sort of like a cross between Space Food Sticks:

and the OED:

One thing I Googled while writing A Field of Darkness was… Continue

Added by Cornelia Read on March 22, 2007 at 7:29am — 5 Comments

So a Writer Walks Into a Bar...

By Cornelia

If you ever get to the point with writing where you feel that, as James

Joyce once said, "writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever

devised for sins committed in previous lives," here are some jokes to

cheer you up:

A…

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Added by Cornelia Read on March 15, 2007 at 10:49am — 8 Comments

Man Bites Book

By Cornelia [This is cross-posted from the group blog I'm Wednesday's posting child on, Naked Authors] As Patty and Paul have discussed here this week, there's been a depressing development on the book news front in recent days--the announcement that the L.A. Times plans to cut back its book review coverage. In an article titled "Scarcity of Ads Endangers Newspapers'… Continue

Added by Cornelia Read on March 8, 2007 at 11:52am — 3 Comments