Dear Teen J
Regret to inform that Monday’s installment of J’s Medieval Bookshelf was delayed due copyedits, and the debauchery and revelry that occurred as a result of me finishing them on deadline. JMB will appear on Wednesday. In lieu of me geeking out over books, I’m over at Dear Teen Me today, so you can amuse yourself [...]
Copyedits are here!
Copyedits have arrived, and are currently consuming my very soul. This will result in some wisdom and possibly a blog post or two once my brain grows back and I’m not putting in 20-hour days between the copyedits, the Day Job and Chez J just to make my deadline. So here are some random things: [...]
J’s Medieval Bookshelf III
J’s Medieval Bookshelf This week’s volume is E.A. Lewis’s Mediaeval Boroughs of Snowdonia. Age I first read it: early twenties Acquired: Winter Holiday present to myself, 2009, from funds sent to me by my now-late grandmother Best things: Excessively complicated pseudo-Victorian title, charming turn-of-the century prose, thorough, detailed, good footnotes. Drawbacks: Vague index, not nearly [...]
The Garden of J
Some of you who know me personally may know that I have a reputation for killing anything green that grows. Be that as it may, I’ve undertaken a project this year: a patch in the community garden. We inherited a patch full of weeds, and it took me the better part of a Saturday afternoon [...]
J’s Medieval Bookshelf II
This week’s book: Rulers of Britain by Plantagenet Somerset Fry. Age I first read it: upon acquisition Acquired: 2002, at a library book sale at the Burlington Public Library (Burlington, NJ) for $1 Best things: cheesy watercolor pictures, brightly-colored heraldic endpapers, apocryphal yet humanizing stories (Alfred and the cakes! Edward I’s toilet humor!), dual-column page [...]
Copyedits!
Just got word from Editor Reka – my copyedits are on their way! She also asked if I’d be willing to write up some historical information to include at the back. “Would I be willing to write up some historical information?” A better question would be, “Can J shut her inner historian up long enough [...]
J’s Medieval Bookshelf I: History of the Princes of South Wales
To combat my general malaise, may I present the inaugural installment of J’s Medieval Bookshelf, an ongoing series in which I geek out over my collected research materials tome by tome on a weekly basis. This week’s volume: G.T.O. Bridgman’s History of the Princes of South Wales. Age I first read it: 16 Date acquired: [...]
Lucky
I’m totally buying a lottery ticket, people. I’ve been on a winning streak lately. Check out my latest score: Not only is it the awesomeness that is Glass by Ellen Hopkins, but it’s signed! Thanks to my fellow Apocalypsie Jenny Torres Sanchez for holding the contest! Now I’ve just got to wait another three hours [...]
Late Nite Catechism
So on Sunday we went to see Late Nite Catechism. If you’ve never seen it, it’s totally worth your time. The idea is that the audience is a catechism class and the nun up on stage is teaching it, so she’s constantly on the “girls” in the audience to cover up and if she happens [...]