2008: The Sunday Salon – Sunday #8

This week has been a much better week than the previous two.  Thanks to good timing, good connections, and probably a little grace of God, I have a new job that starts Wednesday. I’m going to be able to transfer to another community college.  It’s a different job (web development instead of instructional support), but I get to keep my same salary and my benefits

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2008: #82 – Matrimony (Joshua Henkin)

Book #82 was Matrimony by Joshua Henkin.  The back of the book reads: It’s the fall of 1986, and Julian Wainwright, an aspiring writer, arrives at Graymont College in New England. Here he meets Carter Heinz, with whom he develops a strong but ambivalent friendship, and beautiful Mia Mendelsohn, with whom he falls in love. Spurred on by a family tragedy, Julian and Mia’s love

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2008: Challenges – Summer Reading Thing Wrap-Up

Well, I had to change my list of books, but I would consider this challenge completed!  I wanted to read 20 books through the summer, and really, I read more than that.  However, here’s my final challenge list.  Click for reviews! Considering SomeplacElse – B.L. Lindstrom A Living Nightmare – Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak #01) Dance with the Devil – Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dark-Hunter #04)

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