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November 12, 2008
Quotable Wednesday
“She was quoting God. Not the Bible. Just something God said to her one day when they were hanging out.”
-Sarah Vowell on Anne Hutchinson in The Wordy Shipmates
Book mentioned:
Vowell, Sarah. The Wordy Shipmates. NY: Riverhead Books, 2008. (HC: 9781594489990)
Posted by adrienne at November 12, 2008 09:39 PM
Comments
1. How?! How did I not know that Sarah Vowell has a new book?
2. Why?! Why does my library system only have one copy?
(Thanks for the tip! Luckily, I'm only #8 on the list.)
Posted by: Laura at November 14, 2008 04:33 PM
I, too, wonder how this is the first I'm hearing of a new Sarah Vowell book.
Posted by: chuck at November 14, 2008 06:41 PM
Laura and Chuck, It may be because you don't obsessively check amazon.com to see if she'll be publishing a book anytime soon. Don't worry, though, I can pick up that slack. ;)
Posted by: adrienne at November 15, 2008 12:10 PM
I've got the book from the library now! I can't read it without hearing her voice, which is so different from the first book I read by her, Take the Cannoli. It makes me think that perhaps I should give audiobooks another try.
Posted by: Alkelda the Gleeful at November 18, 2008 11:45 AM
I finally brought a portable radio/cd player into the kitchen and have been listening to BOCDs when I'm cooking/doing the dishes. So far, it's been the Princess Diaries. (I'm hoping to get through the whole set before the new one/last in the series comes out in January.) I do find that I do better with BOCDs when they're funny; they hold my attention more firmly.
Posted by: adrienne at November 18, 2008 02:53 PM