Tag: Books

  • Holiday Haul Books Music & Introvert’s Delight

    Holiday Haul Books Music & Introvert’s Delight

    Either I was rewarded for all my hard work or Santa got the wrong house, because I made out like a genetically-spliced amalgam of Old Man Potter, Ebenezer Scrooge, and the Grinch yesterday. I’ll have to build a new shelf in my library and carve out hours for listening, for all the books and compact discs I scored. Ironically, I probably wound up knocking years off my life from all the stress and lack of sleep leading up to so-called Silent Night. Lights out this morning at 1:15 a.m.

    No snow on St. Stephen’s Day. All the same, I hope to cozy in with my hoard, once I get back from my wildlife food deliveries and perhaps plan what I’m going to play for this week’s radio shows, the last of 2023.

    Happy holidays, everyone. Many of us, I’m sure, get better than we deserve. The least we can do is try and pay it forward – even as we introverts pine blearily for January, when we can slither back to our comfort zones for a much-desired long winter’s nap.

  • Rainy Day Fun Princeton Books Music Crossword

    Rainy Day Fun Princeton Books Music Crossword

    You wouldn’t guess it now in the Princeton area, but there’s more rain on the way this afternoon. In fact, rain is in the forecast, to a greater or lesser extent, for the next week or more, mostly in the form of scattered thunderstorms. But you know how it is. It’s a very unstable time of year.

    When it pours down rain, you can waste the opportunity by doing what I can’t help noticing a lot of people do much of the day anyway – flip through your phone. OR you could unplug and enjoy some quiet time with a book.

    Even if I were Burgess Meredith in a post-apocalyptic world with “time enough at last,” my life couldn’t possibly be long enough to read everything I would like to. And that goes for listening to music also.

    Having just polished off the “Kalevala” – the Finnish national epic that inspired so much of Sibelius’ music – and recently posted a photo of my library, reading is much on my mind lately.

    Here’s one of many Classic Ross Amico crossword puzzles I compiled while we were all sitting at home during the first wave of COVID in 2020-21, a puzzle that celebrates two of life’s great pleasures – books and music!

    To fill out the puzzle, follow the link and select “solve online” at the bottom of the page. You’ll then be able to type directly into the squares. Once you feel you’ve exhausted the puzzle, you’ll find the solutions by clicking on “Answer Key PDF.”

    Rain or shine, summer is a great time to catch up on your reading. Pour yourself something cheering, relax, and enjoy!

    https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2020.08/0206/02062839.850.html?fbclid=IwAR0k-_3ekCIGTo3h8stMi2A6pWYJd2uzd_oC7cKDvHdyXxGAH-mRvxaJk0c

  • Books and Music Crossword Puzzle Summer Fun

    Books and Music Crossword Puzzle Summer Fun

    Summer is a great time to catch up on your reading. Rain or shine, this week’s Classic Ross Amico crossword celebrates two of life’s great pleasures – books and music!

    To fill out the puzzle, follow the link and select “solve online” at the bottom of the page. You’ll then be able to type directly into the squares. Once you feel you’ve exhausted the puzzle, you’ll find the solutions by clicking on “Answer Key PDF.”

    Relax, and enjoy!

    https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2020.08/0206/02062839.850.html

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    Welcome to my Facebook page. Check back frequently for links to my radio shows, “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord,” to my newspaper articles and other related material, and for recommendations of and occasional insights into recordings, books and classic movies. My website is under construction. Thanks for reading.

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