For the record, this is Post #600. Yikes! This past weekend, the annual BlogHer Conference took place in San Francisco. You may have heard about it somewhere – going or nor going to BlogHerCon has been quite the topic of blogversation lately, although no one but me has called it “BlogHerCon,” as far as I know (no, wait, someone has); most peple just call it “BlogHer,” and its “official” short name is “BlogHer08” (this year’s […]
Month: July 2008
Friday Q&A – this time, it’s a classic
Tuesday Thingers 7/15 – Book-swapping (hosted by Marie of The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s topic: Book-swapping. Do you do it? What site(s) do you use? How did you find out about them? What do you think of them? Do you use LT’s book-swapping column feature for information on what to swap? Do you participate in any of the LT communities that discuss bookswapping, like the Bookmooch group for example? Well, I have to say “yes and […]
Bookworms Carnival #14 – The scoop
It occurs to me that my announcement that I’ll be hosting the August Bookworms Carnival might need a little background information, especially if this is your first invitation to the Carnival. The monthly Bookworms Carnival is organized and facilitated by Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf, but each individual Carnival is conducted by a volunteer host. While the Carnival’s aim is to help build the book-blogging community, please note that you do NOT […]
Book Club book talk: “Veil of Roses,” by Laura Fitzgerald
Veil of Roses Laura Fitzgerald Bantam, 2006 (paperback) (ISBN 0553383884 / 9780553383881) Fiction, 320 pages First Sentence: As I walk past the playground on my way to downtown Tucson, I overhear two girls teasing a third: Jake and Ella sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Three sentences from Page 123 Book Description: Tamila Soroush wanted it all. But in Iran, hope is a dangerous thing for a girl. That’s why a one-way plane ticket to America […]
Midweek Scraptacular: News and notes and links and stuff
I didn’t have a lot of links to share this past Sunday – partly because work was so busy last week that I skimped on blog reading! – so I decided to keep the collection open a little while longer this time. Announcements: ******** I have set up a FriendFeed – it’s yet another way to share online activity, centralizing your participation in various services. In my case, it’s recapping blog posts, Twitter updates, LibraryThing […]
Ten on Tuesday: Vacation!
I could actually take the easy way out on this week’s Ten on Tuesday topic, “10 Favorite Vacation Moments,” and link back to the 10 days of vacation moments I recently posted about as the “Road Trip Diary,” but I decided that I should look back further than last month‘s vacation, and see what past experiences stood out. The list is organized by destination and travel year, and some vacations have more than one “moment” […]
Weekly Geeks #11 – Helping Dewey Move
Weekly Geeks #11 is a special assignment – a request for help from our fearless WG leader, Dewey. She says: Here’s the thing. I have a big pile of books waiting to be reviewed.I have less than two weeks before I move. I do not want to have to packand move all these books. So what I would like is some help gettingthese books reviewed, so that I can post my reviews and get rid […]
Weekend Assignment #224: Bad Idea
The Weekend Assignment is posted each Friday at Outpost Mâvarin; a roundup of responses goes up the following Thursday, so if you’d like to join in, you’ve still got some time. Karen says: Don’t worry if you don’t get your entry in by the end of the weekend. It’s called the Weekend Assignment because John Scalzi originally designed it to give folks something to write on weekends, but times have changed since then. Now the […]
The meme thief strikes again!
I found both of these at Melody’s Reading Corner. Melody does a lot of fun memes, and she does tag…she’s never tagged me, though, so I just appropriated these two. I’m not tagging, as usual, so feel free to play along on your blog if you like! The One Word Meme (All you have to do is answer the questions with one word, and tag four people. ) Where is your cell phone? Desk Your […]
Weekly Geeks #10 – The Magazine Rack
This week’s Weekly Geeks theme is to talk about the magazines we read, and Dewey even provided a handy little meme to get it going. I almost feel like an impostor participating in this one, since my magazine reading has really dwindled since I got involved with blogging, especially since several of my preferred magazines also offer a lot of their content online. There’s only so much time for off-line reading, and given the choice, […]
Friday Q&A
Tuesday Thingers July 8, 2008 (hosted by Marie at The Boston Bibliophile) Since we’re past the Fourth of July and the summer season has officially started, what are your plans for the summer? Vacations, trips? Trips that involve reading? Reading plans? If you’re going somewhere, do you do any reading to prepare? Do you read local literature as part of your trip? Have you thought about using the LT Local feature to help plan your […]
Book talk: “Then We Came to the End,” by Joshua Ferris
Then We Came to the End: A Novel Joshua Ferris Back Bay Books, 2008 (paperback) (ISBN 031601639X / 9780316016391) Fiction, 416 pages First Sentence: We were fractious and overpaid. Three sentences from Page 123 Book Description: The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left […]
