tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37154902493751836512024-02-07T22:16:51.374-08:00The Lint FilterPeggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-56379422228341970772018-04-30T14:23:00.000-07:002018-04-30T14:23:14.687-07:00Lint in Literature: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, if you're a fan of lint and a good thriller, check out The Wife Between Us. I finished this book over the weekend and highly recommend it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the lint passage in this novel:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Shameful," Maureen joined in. She brushed a piece of lint off Richard's lapel. It struck Nellie as a maternal gesture. Even though Richard was an orphan, at least he had a big sister who clearly adored him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book has more twists and turns than Lombard Street in San Francisco.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's more the way this story was told than the story itself that is so intriguing, I think. Original and well done.</span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-16402488611309186872018-03-09T13:08:00.001-08:002018-03-09T13:08:40.802-08:00Lint in Literature: The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love coming across the word 'lint' when I'm reading a book. Lucky me, I just found one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the book <a href="http://amzn.to/2DeHyLB" target="_blank">The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve</a> here's the quote where lint is mentioned:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grace tries her book again, but reads the same sentence three times. "Have you ever been married?" she asks, pulling a piece of lint from her powder blue sweater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This novel is just as good as the rest of Shreve's books. I think I've read them all, they're so good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Stars Are Fire is the story of Grace, a woman whose life drastically is upended from a catastrophic fire that changes everything.</span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-7345133104699258862017-12-04T10:40:00.000-08:002017-12-04T10:57:54.504-08:00Lint in Literature: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My book club recently picked this book, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, for our January book. Since I read like a turtle (well, I'm not sure turtles actually read but I read slow, like a turtle moves), I decided to start reading it now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm about done, only about 200 pages to go. I'm reading the large print version so it's over 700 pages! But it's so worth it! This book is wonderful! The author is a fabulous writer, the story is unique and compelling, and it's gentle and soothing to read.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the excerpt that contained lint:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, generally speaking such a remark falling from the lips of a statesman should be swept from the floor with the dust and the lint. But when it fell from the lips of Soso, one had good reason to lend it credence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've also learned from reading this book that Soso is a childhood nickname of Stalin. That's just one of the hundreds (thousands?) of tidbits you'll pick up. Of course I don't retain such stuff but it's a fascinating historical look at Russia and our world from the early twentieth century through the 1950s (I think, I'm not done yet).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Check out <a href="http://amzn.to/2jNrs3V" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Gentleman in Moscow</a> if the real world is driving you crazy. This book is a balm against the daily bullshit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-44907250595035543392017-08-17T11:04:00.001-07:002017-08-17T11:05:46.970-07:00Lint in Literature: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I just typed that heading, I realized it makes perfect sense that there would be lint near a spool of blue thread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, I finished <a href="http://amzn.to/2vHdffY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler</a> last week and like all of her novels, loved it. She is a pro at writing novels with great character development and tidbits of everyday life that are easy to read but that are also engaging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the lint excerpt from this novel:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The rug was linty, the floor was strewn with cast-off hangers and dry-cleaner's bags, and a hard gray light from the stripped windows gave the room a bleak and uncared-for look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, in this instance, lint isn't technically used, but linty is. I'll take it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What are you reading lately? Have any good lint stories to share?</span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-13986848022661203742017-07-11T18:40:00.004-07:002017-07-11T18:40:59.426-07:00Lint in Literature: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, long time, no see. I should be ashamed. It's been almost a year since I last posted here and I know I've read the word 'lint' in more than one book. Did I post about it? NO! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'm posting now about a novel I recently finished and it had the word at least twice. I'll just post one since I forgot to mark the second one. By the way, I loved this book. So, here's the excerpt:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I went through the process of wiring him up: soaking squares of lint with salt solution, fixing these to the electrode plates; putting the plates in position on his leg with elastic bindings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book is kinda creepy, kinda spooky, all good! I just loved it and relished every page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-83442953642965689532016-07-25T10:34:00.000-07:002016-07-25T10:36:15.932-07:00Lint in Literature: The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Okay, I can't believe it was last September when I last posted here. Oops!</span><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Bonaventure-Arrow-Novel-ebook/dp/B0089LOKCG/ref=as_li_ss_il?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1469467957&sr=1-1&keywords=the+silence+of+bonaventure+arrow&linkCode=li2&tag=pegghazeehow-20&linkId=c6993e83cfe9a64882ff35f61657809c" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0089LOKCG&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=pegghazeehow-20" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Anyway, I am reading a wonderful book, <a href="http://amzn.to/2a9kJOm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow</a>. And last night I spotted this gem:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Tristan, I'm going to marry Remington Arrow." Lettuce brushed some lint from her sleeve in an effort to appear very casual. "Don't look so shocked. You knew this was going to happen."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">If you haven't read this book, oh boy, you're lucky. You get to read it! If you want to, of course. But I highly recommend it. It's well written and has an interesting premise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"My own house is too clean now, you know? I see a piece of lint, and I have to stop and pick it up, and I look at it, try to decide where it came from."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lint aside, this novel is a mystery that had me stumped till the killer was revealed. Well, I sort of had an idea but it was so good! Read it! With more than 24 5-star reviews on Amazon, it's not just me who likes this one.</span><br />
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Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-51979776642867428442015-06-03T21:24:00.000-07:002015-06-03T21:25:42.476-07:00Lint in Literature: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found some lint! I was reading the novel Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng last night and came across this line:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lydia hugged her knees under the dining table, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cookbookless; Nath picked lint from the carpet and glowered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book is really good so if you love a good read (and lint), you might want to read it, too.</span><br />
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Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-25827904838455673562015-03-30T13:34:00.002-07:002015-03-30T13:34:50.608-07:00Lint in Literature: After the War is Over and Now Write! Mysteries <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read this lint in literature in After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His hair, rather charmingly, was standing on end, and his days-old beard had a thread of lint caught up in the hairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been reading a lot of nonfiction books lately and found lint in one of them. Oh happy day!<br /><br />The book is titled Now Write! Mysteries. In it Harley Jane Kozak, a funny writer of mysteries, wrote a section called The Telling Detail. A telling detail is one thing a writer says about a character to keep them in the reader's mind. Here's her linty entry:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Elderly" becomes "She had grandmother hair, so fragile and fine and soft it might have been lint plucked from the clothes dryer and stuck atop her head."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love it!</span><br />
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Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-43918872771638252802015-03-04T10:15:00.001-08:002015-03-04T10:15:26.770-08:00Lint in Literature: All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was thrilled to find a variation of the word lint in All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner on page 8 of this interesting novel:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The magazine was still open to the quiz on the couch beside me. I grabbed it, bending my head to avoid the scrutiny of the ubermommy two seats down whose adorable newborn was cradled against her body in a pristine Moby Wrap; the one who was not wearing linty black leggings from Target and whose eyebrows had enjoyed the recent attention of tweezers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then later near the end of the book, there is was again. Lint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every year, I was allowed to buy a single souvenir. The summer I was eight years old, I'd saved a few dollars of tooth fairy and allowance money, augmented by the quarters I'd cadged from the sofa cushions and the dollar bills from the lint filter in the dryer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you read Weiner's books? She also wrote In Her Shoes and Little Earthquakes. All so good!</span><br />
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Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-66059428755200987532015-02-02T18:16:00.000-08:002015-02-02T21:08:06.409-08:00Lint in Literature: Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started reading Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman last night. What a treat to see the word lint used twice in the first paragraph!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later she takes the dress off, puts it back on its hanger, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">makes sure there's not a speck of lint on it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not a wrinkle on the seat of the skirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then later, this sentence appears, very similar to the first:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slowly, lovingly, she takes off her dress, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">makes sure there's not a speck of lint of it, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I'm really going to like this novel about a Russian girl with scoliosis of the spine.</span><br />
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Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-51903672426907084452015-01-08T10:03:00.002-08:002015-02-02T18:09:50.913-08:00Lint in Literature: Lucky Us by Amy Bloom<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been awhile since I posted here on my lint blog. So sorry! I have cleaned my dryer's lint filter since I last posted but that's about all the lint I've had in my life, I guess, until last night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was reading my book, Lucky Us by Amy Bloom, and what appeared? Lint! Here's the excerpt:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did notice that the ladies were very happy for me to use the lint brush on their furniture, make tea, and empty the trash, and would you mind, there's a good girl, just take the dog for walkies while I'm drying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This novel is a delight! I've read a few of Amy Bloom's other novels and this one is just as good. </span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-53423420706737128992014-12-28T21:22:00.001-08:002014-12-28T21:22:57.726-08:00Uses for Dryer Lint from the Krazy Coupon Lady<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My niece just let me know about a cool article called <a href="http://thekrazycouponlady.com/tips/at-home/6-quick-tips-recycling-dryer-lint/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"6 Weird Ways to Recycle Dryer Lint." </a>I was all over that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can read the article by clicking the link above, but the one that really stood out to me was using dryer lint to make papier-mache! Makes sense and I bet it works really well, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you had a good Christmas and have a linty new year! Here are some lint rollers to keep you lint free, if that's how you roll.</span><br />
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Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-1939718895466060392014-09-27T20:59:00.000-07:002014-09-27T21:09:06.919-07:00The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bubblews.com/news/7892806-i-have-shingles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I've had shingles</a> for a week now and had, what my doctor thought was a sore or blister near my right eye. So, I've been having to wear gauze over my eye during the day and an eye patch at night. This one-eyed situation made it really hard to do certain things, like read!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I figured out, with my daughter's help, how to download an audiobook onto my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20target=%22_blank%22%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/Laptops-Tablets/b/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&node=2956501011&tag=pegghazeehow-20&linkId=5YCGOIPRDV4LI2GE%22%3EiPad%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=ur2&o=1%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iPad to listen</a> to instead of reading an actual book. I quickly chose The Daring Ladies of Lowell by <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20target=%22_blank%22%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/Kate-Alcott/e/B009WS0V50/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&qid=1411876865&sr=8-1&tag=pegghazeehow-20&linkId=QVY2OTOOLMPGK7XL%22%3EKate%20Alcott%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=ur2&o=1%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kate Alcott</a> from my library using the Overdrive app. I am loving this book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last night while lying in bed, they mentioned lint. The ladies work in a textile mill in 1832 in Lowell, Massachusetts so there is lint flying from the cotton used to make the fabric. I didn't catch the sentence since I was listening, instead of reading, but it was a wonderful use of the word lint and had to share it with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you like historical fiction (and lint), you can't go wrong with The Daring Ladies of Lowell.</span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-52698645667350478512014-09-17T11:24:00.000-07:002014-09-17T11:25:08.923-07:00Lint in Literature: Torch by Cheryl StrayedI just started reading Torch by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, and what did I find on the very first page? Lint! Yes! I was tickled pink.<br />
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"She examined her shirt for lint and cat hair, errant pieces of thread, and primly picked them off."<br />
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What are you reading? Does it have any lint in it?Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-71082645838524588962014-07-22T22:28:00.001-07:002014-07-22T22:29:59.149-07:00Lint in Literature: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just started reading The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd a few days ago. It's wonderful. Right up there with the Secret Life of Bees (The Mermaid Chair, not so much).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, on page 63 there's this wonderful reference to our friend lint:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When she saw the tea trays Aunt-Sister left in the warming kitchen for Cindie to take up, she would drop whatever bit of nastiness she could into the teapot. Dirt off the floor, lint off the rug, spit from her mouth. I told Miss Sarah, stay clear of the tea trays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ha ha! Love that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have a good lint story to share?</span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-90856745134488682352014-06-13T10:42:00.001-07:002014-06-13T10:43:07.904-07:00Navel Gazing and Belly Button Lint<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know I've been neglectful of my lint blog, but I've been busy. I have not, as the title of this blog post might suggestion, been doing any navel gazing and no, I don't have belly button lint but in an attempt to write a new blog post, I searched for "belly button lint" because it's always a fun topic to spend a few minutes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I came across this article by the Huffington Post called <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/what-your-belly-button-says-about-you_n_3901527.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This Is What Your Belly Button Says About You.</a> It's chockfull of information about what the shape of our belly buttons say about us, touches on a few people who do not have belly buttons (they were removed in surgeries; they are not aliens), and the ever-popular belly button lint. So take a few minutes to read some of those strange facts, if you like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if that's not enough, there's a book out called Re: Belly Button Lint by Brooke West. I have a feeling it's not entirely about navel fluff, but I found it interesting that there's a book with belly button lint in the title!</span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1438269218" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-65310271925180512562014-04-19T16:18:00.000-07:002014-04-19T16:21:35.884-07:00Lint in Literature: Two Sisters by Mary Hogan<img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0062279939" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm reading the novel Two Sisters by Mary Hogan and came across this bit of lint in literature last night:<br /><br /> Lidia replied, "Black isn't as slimming as everyone says it is." Then she added, "That white napkin will leave lint all over your pants."<br /> ~*~<br /> <br /> At first I wasn't so sure about this book about two sisters with eight years difference between them, but the more I read it, the better I like it. <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under her tutelage he flossed, he cleaned his ears with Q-Tips, in the shower he spread the cheeks of his buttocks and washed with soap, he filed his fingernails, clipped his toenails, spread petroleum jelly between his littlest toes, where the skin had a tendency to flake, and removed lint from his belly button.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is that a lovely description of tidying up?</span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-42714508510332019872014-03-27T15:01:00.001-07:002014-03-27T15:03:10.251-07:00Lint in Literature: The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OVLKMM/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000OVLKMM&linkCode=as2&tag=pegghazeehow-20" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B000OVLKMM&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=pegghazeehow-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just started reading Jeannette Walls' latest book last night and love it! In case she doesn't ring any bells, she wrote the so-good memoir The Glass Castle. If you haven't read it, do! It's wonderful.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, as I was reading along, the word "linthead" was used several times. Then it was explained! Here's that passage:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Charlie was a fling, as far as she was concerned. Charlotte was pretty shaken up when that wastrel, Liz's father, decided he didn't want to be a father after all. She went through a wild-divorcee period and got involved with a number of men whom Mother and Father disapproved of. Charlie was one of them. She never considered marrying him. The way she saw it, he was just a linthead."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"What's that?" I'd heard Mom use the word, but I didn't know what it meant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"A millworker. They come off their shifts covered in lint."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isn't that perfect!? I think so. </span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00A28HOEA" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-37297655667129670852014-03-04T17:59:00.001-08:002014-03-04T18:00:52.396-08:00Lint in Literature: The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm reading The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner and loving it! Since it's nonfiction, I'm just dipping into it as I have a few minutes so I'm only on page 80. So far, so good!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I read this passage where Lerner is discussing types of writers (this chapter is about the self promoter):</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I discovered that allegations of professional misconduct had attached themselves to this writer like lint.</span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0042JSOTE" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love that analogy. Lint does have a way of sticking where it doesn't belong. </span></span>Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-33937444797008676932014-02-04T21:34:00.001-08:002014-02-04T21:35:32.095-08:00Lint in Literature: Freud's Mistress<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AEBEVPU/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AEBEVPU&linkCode=as2&tag=pegghazeehow-20" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00AEBEVPU&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=pegghazeehow-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I came across the word lint in the latest book I'm reading, Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman. Here's the passage (Martha is Sigmund Freud's wife):</span><br />
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As the noise level rose, Martha flitted back and forth into the kitchen, checking on the biscuits, the beef, getting this child a glass of water, that child a napkin, removing an elbow or a leg from the arm of a chair, and, at one point, bending over and picking up a wad of lint from the floor.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316098868/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0316098868&linkCode=as2&tag=pegghazeehow-20" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0316098868&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=pegghazeehow-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finished this novel a few days ago and toward the end, came across our favorite word: lint!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"He sets his teacup down. 'Well,' he says, picking off an imaginary piece of lint from his trousers, 'I'm in the middle of changing professions. Now that the war is over, there is, happily, less demand for cranial surgery. I'm reading psychiatry, which can't be a complete surprise to you."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really enjoyed this book about memory loss and women during World War I or The Great War as it was called at the time, having no second world war to begin the numbering scheme.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, I also changed my furnace air filter today, which was full of dust and lint. Do you need to change yours?</span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002CJN0H2" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It mostly was seen from the young intern's point of view and was handled very well. The character Jamie McAlister was idealistic and totally fooled, but I don't want to give too much away. Read it! I think anyone would love this smart look at the inner workings of politics today.</span><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pegghazeehow-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00A28HW7Y" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This little snippet about lint was in the book:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Harrisburg? God, no." He considered for a second. "I thought there'd be more camaraderie. I thought join the government, join the campaign, share a common vision, a cause." He picked lint off his slim-cut cords. "But people suck everywhere, I guess."</span><br />
<br />Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974715071491746646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3715490249375183651.post-22298348511613606372013-11-16T10:12:00.000-08:002013-11-16T10:13:37.853-08:00Lint in Literature: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BPDR3F6/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BPDR3F6&linkCode=as2&tag=pegghazeehow-20" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00BPDR3F6&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=pegghazeehow-20" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I recently read The Signature of All Things, a novel by Elizabeth Gilbert (you know, Eat Pray Love?). Anyway, this novel was amazing! It can be called epic and a classic and smart and funny. So good!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Retta ran over to her friend, and sat down beside her. "Look at you! You are overcome on my behalf! You care about me do!" Retta put her arm around Alma's waist, just as she had done on the day they met, and embraced her closely. "I must confess that I am still a bit overcome myself. What would such a clever man want with a silly bit of lint like me?..."</span></div>
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