This weekend didn't exactly go as planned. I thought I was going to spend it working and finishing a whole bunch of articles that I need to finish, but I was way more exhausted - from Barbados followed by a week of mayhem leading up to the reading - than I thought I would be. Couple that with a heat wave this weekend and aside from my L.A. Times Book Fair fun this afternoon (where I had the pleasure of finally meeting Ron, and getting introduced to the fabulousness that was Tina and Bridget), I was pretty much a quivering mass of nappage. Clearly I needed it.
But through all that madness I was starting to feel particularly guilty about neglecting all the bloggers in the GBBMC. I'd gotten into the habit of making at least twice-weekly rounds to catch up on what everyone was writing (and making a comment if I had anything to add to the conversation.) And for two weeks I wasn't able to do any. So I sat down tonight for a few hours and caught up on everything I'd missed. Below, a smattering of the links that resonated with me over the last little while...
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