Since I didn’t post a “Saturday Review” last weekend, I’ve got a lot of links stored up, so I thought I’d get a headstart and share some of reading-related ones today – that will give you less to get through this weekend :-). My real reason for this decision isn’t that selfless, however: I just haven’t had time to get ahead on my writing, so if I didn’t do this, I’d have no post for […]
Month: June 2009
Sportsmanlike conduct (Weekend Assignment #269)
It seems strangely appropriate to use this sports-themed post for a bit of score-keeping: Welcome to Post #900, y’all! Weekend Assignment #269: Are you a sports fan? If so, what’s your favorite? Do you follow many sports, just a few sports, or only one? If not, what is it about sports that leaves you cold? I talked about my fondness for baseball in a post here last month – and that’s pretty much the extent […]
I don’t call them “guilty” pleasures (Weekly Geeks 2009-20)
This week’s task was sent in by Maree of Just Add Books, who’s been thinking about those things that we do when we’re not reading or blogging. Here’s what Maree has to say: The comments on this post of mine got me thinking about guilty pleasures. Non-reading guilty pleasures. Mine at the time the post was written was American Idol. Particularly one contestant, as you can see. By now, the show is over, and the […]
It was not to BEA…but it was on Twitter!
I had heard of the annual Book Expo America conference and trade show before this year, but to my knowledge it was a book-industry thing not open to civilians. Either I was wrong about that in the first place, or book bloggers aren’t considered “civilians” – we’re “new media.” At BEA 2009 this past weekend in New York City, the programming included a book-blogger panel (including my Festival of Books friends Amy and Natasha), which […]
