Year-end is fast approaching, like it or not, and one sign of that is the arrival of the Lists. Because I’m once again nursing a dislocated shoulder and not up to a lot of (one-handed) writing, I thought they’d make a good cut-and-paste post topic for this week’s Sunday Salon. Amazon.com got a head start on the 2010 best-book recaps, announcing its Editors’ Top 10 in October. The editors’ choices mixed fiction and nonfiction, and […]
More sights to see while walking down Hollywood Boulevard… Oh, too bad – we missed the AFI Fest! Over-indulge in the Botox, and you just might end up here When you think “Hollywood,” what image comes to your mind? Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
It’s a two-for-one special today, but they’re vaguely related: What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have? Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. (But I’m much better at writing it, IMO.) You are also good at remembering information and convincing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique […]
If you were on Twitter Saturday afternoon, you might have seen this: @florinda_3rs Florinda Pend.-Vasq. Guess who fell and landed on her right arm AGAIN? Shoulder’s not dislocated this time, but the impact was bad and the whole arm just hurts. Sunday morning’s follow-up: @florinda_3rs Florinda Pend.-Vasq. Arm Injury Update: less pain & more mobility than yesterday, but still needs rest & healing time today. Also, Left-Handed Typist is back! I didn’t visit the ER […]
Growing up, I never thought much of my looks – and no one else seemed to either, except maybe my mom. I stopped growing early, a few inches shy of five feet; I was small all over, actually. But I wore big glasses (which helped hide my somewhat lazy, inward-drifting eyes), and had naturally big hair long before girls spent the ‘80’s trying to achieve it. My mother would tell me I had “good bone […]
It seems like “the holidays” – or at least the process of getting ready for them – start just after Halloween these days, and that sent me off on a few Tuesday Tangents. When did you start seeing Christmas-merchandise sections in the stores this year (assuming you already have)? On October 29, I noticed that the Christmas section of the new Target in my neighborhood was larger than the area devoted to Halloween…which hadn’t happened […]
There have been too many stories in the last year or two about cities closing or limiting the hours of their libraries, but bookstores have been having a hard time of it as well. Shelf Awareness regularly reports on closures in the independent-bookseller sector – there’s one looming in Nashville – but they’re not the only ones affected; the big-name bookstores have been struggling too. I live in what’s essentially a one-bookstore town…well, two if […]
Karen’s comment on my entry for last week’s Weekend Assignment made me stop and think for a minute: “It’s interesting that your habits have changed on (re-reading). Is it that your reading horizons expanded with adulthood so you had access to more books TBR, or was it more a question of awareness of a wider range of books in which to be interested? It sounds as though your recent rereading is pretty much all […]
We’ll start this week’s travels at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and LaBrea Avenue… …where this pavilion marks the beginning… …of this! This song gets stuck in my head every time I take this walk: Everybody’s a dreamer, everybody’s a star, And everybody’s in movies, it doesn’t matter who you are. There are stars in every city, In every house and on every street, And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Their names are written […]
Outside the Ordinary World Dori Ostermiller Mira (2010), Edition: Original Paperback (ISBN 0778328899 / 9780778328896) Fiction: 400 pages Source: Publisher, via TLC Book Tours Reason for reading: Blog tour/review Opening Lines: “I’m pacing circles in the family therapist’s waiting room, trying to discern what my daughter is saying on the other side of that door. Hannah hasn’t spoken to me in days, but she seems to have plenty to say to a stranger: I can […]
Remember Banned Books Week? It was a little over a month ago, and many of us defended the freedom of access to books, regardless of their content: “I’m very much in favor of the freedom to read what one chooses to read – and in order to make those choices well, one needs access to the full range of choices. I also believe in the freedom to choose not to read something. But I believe […]
This review is part of the Green Books Campaign.Today 200 bloggers take a stand to support books printed in an eco-friendly manner by simultaneously publishing reviews of 200 books printed on recycled or FSC-certified paper. By turning a spotlight on books printed using eco- friendly paper, we hope to raise the awareness of book buyers and encourage everyone to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. The campaign is organized for the second time […]
