The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.
The champagne is chilling and I am curled up with a good book (A Clash of Kings) waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square.
Wishing all a prosperous, healthy, and joyous 2012!!
I was once challenged to write a limerick about Jane Austen. A limerick is a humorous verse, frequently bawdy. In fact, it’s really no fun at all if there isn’t a bit of the naughty in it. I am sure this person thought it would be impossible to write such a thing given Jane Austen’s reputation for lady-like gentility. Ah, ignorant fool! Little did this person know that Jane Austen, far from being a blushing prude, knew what was what and wrote a famous pun referring to sodomy in the Royal Navy.
So here is my effort:
There once was a lady named Jane
Her scribblings are considered most tame;
But far from being dour,
Wrote a quip, to make us cower,
Of ‘rears and vices’ without shame.
So here I am! I’ve always wanted to write. I’ve always wanted to share my love of the literary, everything and anything literary. I’ve been procrastinating over this, literally hemming and hawing, agonizingly wanting everything to be absolutely perfect before I embarked. But nothing is ever perfect and so I decided to just go for it. So now I’ve made the leap. I will make mistakes, I will be slow, my technological ineptness will frustrate me (and most likely you, dear reader). I ask that you forgive my unpracticed and unskilled first steps. In time, it will get better. Queen Victoria said it best, “I will be good.”
I love the classics, science-fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, biography, poetry, history, letters, autobiography, short stories, horror, American Literature, English Literature, French Literature, garden books, food books, cooking books, and graphic novels. It’s all good to me. This does not, by any stretch of the imagination, mean I like everything I read; I am passionate about that in which I detest as well as that which I love. For example, you will soon find out that I love Jane Austen. To me, she can do no wrong…she is FLAWLESS! See that passion? I can’t think of anything that I absolutely loathe at the moment but give it time…the rants will come.
Here’s to good reading!
