Snapshot Chronicles

Susan Getgood's personal blog

Summer Reading

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Boy, I was tired last night. I didn’t really end the post, just stopped writing. Blogging has been a bit light this summer, but I have read some great books. So with no further ado, I give you my summer 2008 reading recommendations.

You may only know actor Bruce Campbell as Sam in the current USA Network series Burn Notice, but he has worked steadily as an actor for 20+ years, starting with the Evil Dead movies and including an excellent but short-lived series in the early 90s called The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

He’s also a very engaging author. This summer I’ve read his memoir If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor and am nearly done with his second book, Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way.

I’ve always enjoyed reading cookbooks, so I guess it is no surprise that I enjoy reading the memoirs of great chefs. I read Julia Child’s memoir My Life in France a few years ago and this summer, I read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Marco Pierre White’s The Devil in the Kitchen. I highly recommend all three.

Finally, two new books by mom bloggers deserve a space on your shelf: Sleep Is for the Weak, an anthology of posts from mom blogs edited by Rita Arens, and The White Trash Mom Handbook, by Michelle Lamar.

[tags] Bruce Campbell, Rita Arens, Michelle Lamar [/tags]

Hummingbirds and a little sci fi

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In between the rainstorms we were having most of the first two weeks of the month, I finally managed to get some good shots of the female hummingbird.

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SciFi Sunday is pretty much on hiatus. Mostly because there hasn’t been so much to talk about. Eventually I will get around to a review of Stargate Continuum; generally, we liked it but haven’t had time to rewatch to write a decent review.

The end of Stargate Atlantis. A non-event really. I haven’t been gotten into season 5 at all, mostly because I realized that most of season 4 was pretty boring. Really miss the Weir and Carson characters. Carter and Woolsey may share letters of the alphabet with them, but they just don’t have the chemistry with the core characters of Sheppard and McKay.

Sunset

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While rain does seem to be the standard weather pattern here in New England this summer, we occasionally have a nice day. Or in the case of last Tuesday, a so-so day but a beautiful sunset. Followed by more rain. I snapped this picture of the ridge behind the house just before the sun set and the next deluge began.

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It was also a fairly nice weekend, so we went on a short hike to Luce’s Lookout. Read all about it on my post today at New England Mamas.

[tags] sunset, Vermont [/tags]