It's been a pretty cool holiday season so far. It all started a few days before Christmas, when I lost my cell phone. Luckily, it turned out that it had fallen out of my pocket in the cab. The cabbie drove back to my office and returned the phone to me, and refused to charge me for the extra trip. A nice feel good holiday season gesture.
Then I tried to make last minute plans for Xmas week. After a small amount of searching, we found a fantastic dog-friendly B&B in Napa. Not only did we get welcomed with cookies, mulled wine, dog biscuits and open arms, we had a very relaxing few days there. They went out of their way to accommodate requests, Mocha had an enclosed yard to play in, they made restaurant recommendations and reservations for us (dog-friendly places all, I may add) and in general let us relax. On the day after Christmas, full of good wine, good food and good cheer we sadly left Beazley House. But not before making plans to go back there soon :)
And to top it all off, I have just discovered Librarything. Just what my Monica gene has been craving, ever since I started trying to catalog my books last summer. This weekend, I will be happily cataloging my books and buying a life membership. Many thanks to Sashi D for leading me to Librarything.
Cheers all, and wish you a wonderful 2007!
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Nisha,
Yes, do give LibraryThing a twirl, and let me know when you have your catalog going by posting a link here; nothing tickles my mental bones more than looking over the libraries of others, even though I am still hobbling under the weight of transporting my modest one up East Coast.
Also if you are a serious bibliophile, which I am guessing you are, I would also reccomend Anne Fadiman's delightful essays in "Ex Libris"; it was these that gave me the idea that someone is not worth marrying if one can't merge one's library with his or hers. :)
Reading the essays, for sure. By the way, I have a "Work in Progress" catalog that is accessible from the sidebar (My Library). A convoluted way of linking to it, but there it is anyway...
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