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This World We Live In Is Now Available On Kindle

You may already know that, but I only discovered it this morning.



I admit I don't have a Kindle, but the people I know who do have one love it. So I figured I'd make an official announcement.

Consider it announced!

You Won't Find These In Bartlett's (Well, Maybe One Or Two)

As you know by now, Google is always writing, always calling, always letting me know what's going on with my life.

So I wasn't surprised when the other day, Google emailed me the following cryptic message: We live behind the sorrow moon, we live in to the final day

I still have no idea what it means, and none of my further Googling has given me much information, but I like the way it sounds, especially the behind the sorrow moon part, which has a lovely melancholic ring to it.

But it got me th...

Leading Off And Playing Shortstop, Lieutenant Sulu

Yesterday, while watching a baseball game, I had one of those realizations that other people don't need to have because they have brains.

I think I had a brain once, but I misplaced it.

The realization was when baseball players indicate that there are two outs (which they do with their index finger and pinkie spread and their middle two fingers touching each other), they do so with their throwing hands, which are their dominant hands. It'd be kind of silly for them to do it with the hand that'...

Teacher, Study and Discussion Guides for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In

While many of the following links are available on the side of the blog, I thought it might be helpful to have a single entry with links to various teacher's, discussion and study guides, book talks, and other useful things for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In.

I'll try to keep this entry up to date, with new links as I find them.

The single best source remains the University of Missouri eThemes for LAWKI.

Amongst its links are those for Houghton Mifflin...

Teacher's,Study and Discussion Guides for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In

While many of the following links are available on the side of the blog, I thought it might be helpful to have a single entry with links to various teacher's, discussion and study guides, book talks, and other useful things for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In.

I'll try to keep this entry up to date, with new links as I find them.

The single best source remains the University of Missouri eThemes for LAWKI.

Amongst its links are those for Houghton Mifflin...

Study and Discussion Guides for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In

While many of the following links are available on the side of the blog, I thought it might be helpful to have a single entry with links to various discussion and study guides, book talks, and other useful things for Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In.

I'll try to keep this entry up to date, with new links as I find them.

The single best source remains the University of Missouri eThemes for LAWKI.

Amongst its links are those for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's...

Let Kids Read Whatever They Want (As Long As It's Written By Me)

I read a couple of interesting articles this morning.

The first comes from Publishers Weekly ,by the ever wonderful Elizabeth Bluemle about how to convince people in as few words as possible to read certain books. Life As We Knew It took a few extra words.

The New York Times has an article about the importance of getting kids to read in the summertime, regardless of what they read. It seems it's a whole lot better for a kid to read a book about Hannah Montana than not to read anything at all, e...

July Ends With Rejection; August Begins With One

In case you were wondering, Chelsea never called, never emailed, never even apologized for my invitation getting there too late for her wedding, which leads me to suspect maybe she never invited me in the first place.


Steven Spielberg, the sweetie, didn't go either, presumably as a protest to my lack of invitation. Next time he comes, I'll let him play with my Close Encounters Of The Third King Space Alien Plastic Figurine (he can play with Scooter too if he wants).

But now it's August, time to...

Oh Well. I Have Other Plans Myself For That Night

I am starting to think I'm not invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding.

For the past few weeks, I've simply assumed Chelsea misplaced my address, or the post office misplaced the invitation, or Bill and Hillary didn't remember which email address to send the invite to (although they could have googled me and found susanbpfeffer@aol.com pretty darn easily). I'm not on Facebook, I reminded myself, so they couldn't have left the invite on the wall there, as they probably did with Steven Spielberg an...

Son Of Return To The End Of The World (Disc 2)

I was spending a quiet afternoon paying an enormous amount of bills and letting the government know how my Keogh plan is doing (better than last year, thank goodness) when the doorbell rang.

Scooter jumped in the other direction, which was a help, and I went downstairs and opened the door. There was a package waiting for me, and a UPS truck driving in the opposite direction.

I expected nothing. I even checked the name and address on the box to make sure it was intended for me.

Rapt with curiosi...