Molly Ringle's Blog, page 37

Deckle me not

Spotted on Amazon on some new hardcover book listing:

This Book Is Bound with "Deckle Edge" Paper. You may have noticed that some of our books are identified as "deckle edge" in the title. Deckle edge is when the pages of a book are made to resemble handmade paper by applying a frayed texture to the edges. Deckle edge is an ornamental feature designed to set certain titles apart from books with machine-cut pages.

...They do that on purpose? And here I thought such books were just cheaply made ...

Needed: more comedy!

We've now finished season 5 of The Office on DVD, and thus must sit around impatiently until season 6 is done and out on DVD. (No, we don't have Tivo, nor is it realistic with yon small children for us to get episodes from online and sit around a computer watching. No, we don't have devices to transfer them from online to TV, as far as I know, nor the time to do it, so just never mind because this isn't the point.)

I want recommendations for another good comedy series to watch. No, a great com...

Back in the Naughties we had the WORST cell coverage...

Uh-oh, people. It's almost 2010 and we still seemingly haven't decided, as a global whole, what to call this current decade. It was the "eighties," then the "nineties," then the...what? Oh-ohs? Zeros? Aughties? Naughties?

This page discusses the main possibilities. But we will probably have to wait several years for a definitive answer, just by seeing which usage shakes out as the prevailing one.

Halloween ebook giveaway!

Since Halloween is almost upon us, and since I get to do this quite a few times if I want, I'm going to do one more giveaway of a PDF (ebook) copy of THE GHOST DOWNSTAIRS. Comment below to enter! Winner will get picked on Sunday by the handy-dandy random number generator at random.org.

And someday I'll post about more than just contests again, but October here has mostly been spent with the family sharing a flu-like thing. Yay.

I'm featured! Thus, a giveaway...

There's an article about me on the Nights and Weekends site--I'm their featured e-author this month! Come read it and learn who I cite as my influences and what scents I would capture and stick in a bottle if I could.

And since it mentions the occasional perfume giveaways on my blog, let's do one now to reward anyone who comes looking for one...

Today's double header:

Cafe Noir by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz - has notes of bergamot, black pepper, cinnamon bark, pimento berry, benzoin, Bulgarian rose ot...

And now for a laugh...

I think I've linked to this before, but there are some new ones now, and the site still makes me snort with laughter.

Retitled Romance Novels:
Page 1 (by Longmire)
Page 2 (reader submissions)

Examples:

Ebook giveaway

I doubt I will have time for a Halloween read-aloud project this year, as we did with Operations Ichabod and Raven in past years. Someone else can feel free to try organizing it if they want, and I'll at least read aloud a part.

But I will do this to kick off October: a giveaway of a PDF copy of The Ghost Downstairs. All you have to do to enter is comment here. It's about, uh, ghosts, sororities, old people, Seattle, love, and a few holidays including Halloween.

Good luck! Winner will be picked...

Things bugging me about 'Eclipse'

It's been weeks since I finished reading Eclipse, but some things about it still bug me. First off, let's admit: the fact that I liked some of it. That just makes the annoying parts more annoying. Why couldn't it just all have been good instead of merely certain scenes? And for the record, the main part I think of as a good read was the strange love triangle on the mountain, the night Bella spent with both Edward and Jacob (in of course a totally non-sexual way), and the aftermath the next mo...

Perfume giveaway: Chanel No. 5

That's right! The one, the only, Chanel No. 5. Now is your chance to sample it, in the usual little 1 ml vial from The Perfumed Court. And if you like it, the good news is it will almost certainly never be discontinued within your lifetime.

TPC's description: This is the EDP of Chanel No. 5, the classic that this legendary house has been known for. Created in 1921, No. 5 has notes of aldehydes, Grasse jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, iris, amber, and patchouli.

To enter to win the sample, comment on...

Half a life and more

The scales have tipped. 17 years ago, right about this time of year, Steve and I began dating, at age 17. We thus celebrate over half our lives now spent together as a couple.

There are lots of awesome compliments I could pay Steve, regarding his being kind, intelligent, patient, and devoted; but the most important, to my mind, is that he's funny. So in this brief entry, I celebrate the Steve/Molly relationship (Stolly? Meve?) by a few Steve quotations that have become famous between us in the...