Julia Barrett's World

Seriously! I am feeling so down. What am I going to do without baseball? I don’t like professional football, hate pro basketball…should I start watching hockey? My son is a hockey freak and one of my daughters is getting into it.

Maybe I’ll do some cooking and baking and freeze everything for Thanksgiving.

So…interesting stuff, not me-related, well, some might be me-related.

I want to eat here - http://www.brownsugarkitchen.com/

I have a serious craving for the buttermilk fried chicken and cornmeal waffle with brown sugar butter & apple cider syrup. A SERIOUS craving.

I want to do this - http://www.liquidfusionkayak.com/

I am thinking about switching my blog to this - http://www.tumblr.com/why-tumblr

*Readable - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8080503/Being-a-prolific-author-isnt-a-bad-thing.html

*Extra Readable - http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/10/books-electronic-publishing/

So you all may or may not have been paying attention when I mentioned that I was reading Cutting for Stone - the book by Abraham Verghese. This is a book everyone loves, including my hubby and my sister. For the life of me, I could not get into it. I struggled to read half the book and then called it quits. However, another book about Africa has caught me tight - hooked me with the very first sentence and I have not been able to put it down. It’s a work of nonfiction but it reads like fiction - “I think I first realized something was wrong when our next door neighbor, oom Piet Oberholzer, was murdered.” Gripping from word one. Mukiwa, A White Boy In Africa, by Peter Godwin. When I finish this, I plan to continue reading his story in When a Crocodile Eats the Sun.

Oh…nice review for Daughters of Persephone here - http://realmsonourbookshelvesofficial.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-request-julia-rachel-barrett.html

So what’s new with you?