Tuesday, July 24, 2012

A Few Things

1. Recently, an anonymous viewer pointed out that the quote I use as my title, "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate," was not by Charles Dickens but by a woman named Linda Grayson. So thanks, whoever you are. The reason I had attributed it to Dickens is because when I first started this blog, I checked Goodreads for inspirational quotes. At the time, someone had written that the quote was by Dickens, not Grayson. After a bit of research, I found various webpages that also claimed Dickens had written that line, and so I wrote that it was his quote on the top of my blog. However, this just shows how widely spread this misconception is. I haven't read all of Dickens' books, and neither have most other people, so I had no idea whether or not he had written it. Could he have? Sure. Either way, it's a pretty great quote, and so it's staying as part of the title of my blog.

2. I won't be posting as often here due to the issue of my little sister who is always on the computer, as well as to other things. But I have taken up the task of being one of several authors of the Wordpress blog The Adorkable Timelord (my penname is theresonatinglight) simply because it is way more accessible from my DROID RAZR than Blogger is.

3. I DO, however, have a review coming up for you. The book is Ugly To Start With by John M. Cummings; I haven't had the chance to start it yet (due mostly to the restraints of my limited computer time), but I'm really looking forward to reading it.

So overall, though I am not going to be posting nearly as often, I still will occasionally.

4. By the way, my robotics team did really great this year. We ranked among the top 40 in the world!

~Ellen