Mailbox Monday, hosted at The Printed Page Yes, there have been a few new arrivals on my bookshelves this week! I received for review: Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton (with Erin Torneo), via Anna Jarzab at The Book Report Network The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway, via LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program I received from a friend: The Brightest Moon of the Century, by Christopher Meeks […]
This “Book Meme” has been making the rounds, but I stole it from The Boston Bibliophile. Feel free to steal it from me! 1. Hardback, trade paperback or mass market paperback? Trade paperback. I try to make sure any purse I buy is big enough to hold one. 2. Barnes & Noble or Borders? Borders, although I will not turn up my nose at B&N if they’re what’s around. I find Borders to be a […]
The Musing Mondays question for April 13 dovetails rather well with Task #7 for the Blog Improvement Project, I think – see if you agree: How do you respond to the comments on your blog? Do you try to email individually or comment on post yourself answering the comments above? What do you think is the best way to respond to comments and do you respond to all of them? Do you feel slighted if […]
I’m substituting for Sunshine at …and the pursuit of happiness today. She’s been off on Easter travels, but before she left, she sent out a call for guest bloggers to weigh in on the recent Iowa Supreme Court decision regarding who is allowed to marry whom. Since I’ve gone on a bit about that topic here before, I thought I’d take another swing at it over at her place. Please stop by over there and […]
Thanks to Jessica Lee at Penguin Group USA for making this book available for review! What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child – and All the Best Times to Read Them Pam Allyn Avery Books, 2009 (paperback) (ISBN 1583333347 / 9781583333341) Nonfiction (education/reading), 336 pages One of my favorite parts of the early years of parenting was reading aloud with my son. I believe that you can’t start this […]
Bulletin Board Sad announcement: Heather Spohr, one of my LA Moms Blog co-contributors, and her husband Mike lost their baby Madeline this week. This beautiful girl, born prematurely, was not quite seventeen months old. Please keep the family in your thoughts, and per their request, consider a donation to the March of Dimes in Maddie’s memory. New to my Google Reader Still Life with Book Maven You’ve GOTTA Read This! Dispatches from Across the Blogiverse […]
Musing Mondays, hosted at Just One More Page… Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about your to be read list… As a follow up to last week’s question, Joseph asked how you keep track of your TBR list. Do you have a paper list or on your computer? Do you take it with you when you go shopping? How do you decide what gets added to it? By some definitions, I don’t have a “TBR” list. […]
This week, Becky proposed two different Weekly Geeks topics related to literary observances this month: April 2nd was International Children’s Book Day, which inspired Option A: Be A Kid! The entire month is National Poetry Month, and therefore Option B is Be A Poet! I am not about to write a poem and inflict it on y’all, so I am left with Option A, for which Becky offered several suggestions: You could read a picture […]
Welcome back for the second edition of “You’ve got Q’s, I’ve got A’s,” in which I will visit a few more of the respondents to my blogiversary survey and address the questions they left for me. And for those of you who missed – or skipped – the survey the first time around, I’m re-printing it at the end of this post. C’mon, y’all, I really don’t enjoy groveling…but it would make me very happy […]
I sent my husband a link to a post on the GeekDad blog called “10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse” with the note “Do any of these sound familiar?” His response: “I don’t think I get it. Which ones are the annoying ones?” That was my reaction too. For the most part, the article pretty much described everyday life at our house. One of the wonderful things that Tall Paul and I have in […]
Back in January, talking about some of my favorite returning TV shows, I said: Life on Mars was the only new series we sampled this fall, and we got totally hooked. (No, I never saw the British original, so please don’t tell me how much better it was; for the record, I never watched the original British version of The Office, either.) This show’s a head trip, and a lot of fun to watch. Detective […]
Thanks to Julie Harabedian at FSB Associates for making this book available for review (months ago – sorry it’s taken me so long to get to it)! Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block Judith Matloff Random House, 2008 (hardcover) (ISBN 1400065267 / 9781400065264) Nonfiction/memoir, 304 pages First sentence: I needed to get a second look. After all, I had just pledged our entire savings on a house in Harlem, without informing […]
