Yes, this writing prompt is called the “Weekend” Assignment, but we have until midnight tomorrow (Wednesday) to respond to it, and I’m issuing a special invitation to my bookish buddies to join in this week. You can find the guidelines on the the post with this week’s topic: Weekend Assignment # 343: Read It Again Some people like to read a book once, and then they’re done. The plot is resolved and they know whodunnit, […]
Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life Quinn Cummings (Twitter) Hyperion (2009), Paperback (ISBN 1401322867 / 9781401322861) Memoir/Humor, 272 pages Source: Personal/purchased Reason for reading: Blogging Authors Reading Project Opening Lines: “This wasn’t in my plans for the day. “Alice and I attended a parent-and-child art class. While Alice mused over a composition that would be entitled in future catalogs of her work as Meditations on Pink Tissue, Elmer’s Glue, and […]
For the second year in a row, I’m publicly saying NO to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I love to read, and I love to write. Also, I love to write about what I read, otherwise my blog would never have been born. I think there are some truths about life and humanity and why we are the way we are that are best explored through fiction. I think that fiction can help us […]
I don’t work in the entertainment industry, but I do work in an office just off Hollywood Boulevard. I took a walk one day at lunch and took some photos around the neighborhood, and I’ll share a few with you each Saturday this month – NaBloPoMo participants are allowed “Wordless Weekends.” Welcome to Tinseltown! Today we’ll follow the stars… …to the world-famous Grauman’s Chinese Theater, and see who’s left their footprints in the courtyard. It’s […]
I won’t be taking up too much of your time this Friday…but since I’m doing NaBloPoMo, you won’t get a break from me tomorrow, so it all evens out! I’m sure you’ve heard there was an election this week – and no matter how you feel about the way it all turned out, I hope you voted! Julie takes a fairly moderate look at how change begets change, while April’s glad we’re done with campaign […]
#fullpost { display: inline; } I call it “TBR Purgatory” for a reason – books come in and languish for an indeterminate amount of time before I decide their fate. If they arrive with a due date – publication or review-tour commitment – they’ll get out sooner. Some – granted, not all that many – arrive in hardcover and are still unread when the paperback hits bookstores. And occasionally, when one is finally sprung from […]
When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books (2009), Hardcover (ISBN 0385737424 / 9780385737425) Fiction (children’s/YA), 208 pages Source: Personal/purchased copy Reason for reading: leftover from 24-Hour Readathon, follow-up to my re-read of A Wrinkle in Time Opening Lines: “So Mom got the postcard today. It says Congratulations in big curly letters, and at the very top is the address of Studio TV-15 on West 58th Street. After three years of trying, she has […]
It’s been three years since I last participated in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). Originally held in November to coincide with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), NaBloPoMo is now every month, but November’s the only time I seriously consider joining in. That’s partly because I have a traditionalist streak, but also because November is the only month that doesn’t have a designated blogging theme. I can commit to daily posting for a month, but not […]
By the time you read this, I’ll have already voted. The legendary Chicago maxim – “vote early and often” – aside, you can only vote as often as elections are held, and when they are held, you only get to vote once. But in many places, you don’t have to wait for Election Day any more, and you can easily comply with the “early” part. More and more districts are implementing in-person “early voting” at […]
