kindle: to fuel a fire

The Kindle is for reading, not re-reading! If the number of times you can accesss the book you've bought and paid for is limited, it wouldn't make much sense to buy any kind of reference book or any book by an author you love, would it? And Amazon doesn't even know how the download works! And there's more bad news: "He proceeded to tell me that there is always a limit to the number of times you can download a given book. Sometimes, he said, it’s five or six times but at other times it may only be once or twice. And, here’s the kicker folks, once you reach the cap you need to repurchase the book if you want to download it again."

happy bloomsday!

James Joyce meets Nora Barncale in 1904. "Stately plummp Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed . . ." Read a little Ulysses today. Have a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of Burgundy for lunch. Next year in Dublin!

alice munro

Alice Munro

"A story is not like a road to follow. It's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows." Mistress of all she surveys.

charlie

Me and Charlie Tolchin DeMarchi (son of Tom and Karen) in the NICU at South Miami Hospital last night. Charlie weighs 3 pounds, 9 ounces. I weigh slightly more. Charlie arrived two months early and is doing incredibly well.

django

 

 

 

The best cat I ever had, Neutron, died recently of lymphoma. Here's the new guy who moved in, Django, in an unusually calm moment.