exciting news! and possible business venture?

DC finally got a sewing cafe!

Now Baltimore really needs one.

I know this is a terrible time to start up a new business, but there's no shortage of available retail space ...

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In the past ten years, you could probably count the total number of books I managed to read on the fingers of one hand, but lately it seems I've finally gotten over any residual trauma of grad school (I had to read a book a night for two and half years--NO LIE) and resumed reading again for pleasure, just like I did before it became my job.

So far this year I've read:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Fool
The Professor and the Madman
The Graveyard Book

Four books doesn't seem like a lot (one of them being a kid's book, even), but it's an average of one a month.

I also got about halfway through Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, but I think maybe it will mean more to me after I've been and I will know first-hand what he's talking about.

Next up: A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson, which was recommended by my neurologist ... I figure a brain doctor, of all people, would know a good book when he read it.