Booking Through Thursday: Sing! Sing a Song… But, enough about books … Other things have words, too, right? Like … songs! If you’re anything like me, there are songs that you love because of their lyrics; writers you admire because their songs have depth, meaning, or just a sheer playfulness that has nothing to do with the tunes. So, today’s question? What songs … either specific songs, or songs in general by a specific group or […]
Month: January 2009
Saturday Review 1-17-08: Pre-long-weekend/Inauguration edition
Bulletin Board **** I screwed up and missed the official DeLurking Day this past Monday, so I issued a second-chance invitation for lurkers to come out and comment on Tuesday’s post. If you didn’t take me up on it then, please consider this your second second chance – speak up and say hello! **** Y’all know I participate in the “Weekend Assignment” writing exercises based at Outpost Mâvarin. Karen‘s been asking for topic ideas. I […]
TBIF: Thank blog it’s Friday! 1-16-09 – a week’s worth of memes
Tuesday Thingers: Questions for LibraryThing users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner Today’s question: A few weeks ago, someone told me about the Common Knowledge feature of Library Thing. The statistics and basic information can be found through a link at the bottom of any page. Currently there are over 869,540* facts that have been entered. How do they get there? We add them! It took me a while to figure out that you enter them […]
Book talk: “History Lesson for Girls,” by Aurelie Sheehan
History Lesson for Girls: A Novel Aurelie Sheehan Penguin, 2007 (paperback) (ISBN 0143111906 / 9780143111900) Fiction, 368 pages First sentence: One day I saw them, our dream horses, and on that day I pulled over to the side of the road and cried. Book description (summarized): Alison suffers from scoliosis. Her bent spine is not only a physical defect but also a social stigma isolating her from other teenagers and even distancing her from her […]
It’s bookKEEPING, not bookSTEALING
A conversation among some of my book-blogging buddies on Twitter clued me in to Shelf Awareness, a daily e-mail newsletter about the book business. This item in the January 8 e-mail caught my attention: On Tuesday, local police arrested a woman who between 2006 and 2008 was a bookkeeper at Page and Palette bookstore, Fairhope, Ala., and charged her with embezzling about $50,000 from the store, the Press-Register reported. The former bookkeeper, Theresa Canavan Lyda, […]
WG 2009-01: Bloggy favorites, worthy of an award!
***One of the hazards of pre-scheduling my posts is that I miss things that don’t get advance announcement, and then I have to play catch-up. Yesterday was officially DeLurking Day across the blogiverse! Well, let’s go ahead and observe it here today instead – please come out of hiding and leave a comment, whether you do so regularly, or you rarely (or never) have before!**** ===================================== Welcome to the return of Weekly Geeks! We took […]
Weekend Assignment #250: Hot or Cold?
Karen is asking about the weather for this Weekend Assignment: Weekend Assignment #250: We’re getting into the coldest time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, so I expect things are getting a mite chilly on some places. If you had to pick one or the other, would you rather be too cold in the winter, or too hot in the summer? Extra Credit: How has the weather been so far this season, compared to past […]
Sunday Book Talk: “The Pages in Between,” by Erin Einhorn
(I don’t participate in The Sunday Salon, but it seems like Sunday is a good alternate day for posting book reviews if they don’t show up here on Thursdays. New year, new tradition?) Thanks to Felicia Sinusas of Jane Wesman Public Relations for noticing this book on my wish list and arranging for me to receive a copy to read and review – sorry it’s taken so long! The Pages in Between: A Holocaust Legacy […]
Saturday Review 1-10-09
Bulletin Board Weekly Geeks re-launches this week – a new topic is posted TODAY! I’m part of the team that is continuing this event that Dewey started in the spring of 2008. Weekly Geeks is on its own blog now – please go on over to get this week’s theme and see how to play along. While you’re there, grab one of the new buttons, and please take a few minutes to check out the […]
TBIF: Thank blog it’s Friday! Weekly Memes Day 1-9-09
Tuesday Thingers: Questions for LibraryThing users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner Today’s question: Did you know that there are 1497 authors participating in LibraryThing Authors? If you haven’t checked it out, head over for a moment and see if you can find out something new about an author! If you don’t have time to go snooping, have you ever looked at the LT Author page before? Did you know that it is for authors and […]
Blog Improvement Project, Week 1: Setting Goals
I think that this blog made a lot of progress during 2008, but things can always be tweaked, and as I’m coming up on my second blogiversary, participating in the Blog Improvement Project (hosted by Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness) sounds appealing. The first task in the project, “Setting Goals,” is less appealing, I’m sad to say. It’s not that I don’t have goals, but as an attempting-to-recover control freak, I try not to get too […]
Coming soon to a DVR near me – the winter TV season!
To me, September feels more like “New Year’s” time than January does, because for most of my life it’s been linked to the beginnings of two very important annual events – the school year and the fall TV season. Back-to-school will still impact my life for at least nine more years, but recently, the arrival of new TV episodes in the fall has met with less fanfare. There are a few reasons for that – […]
