Today’s Sunday Salon will wrap up my participation in yesterday’s 24-Hour Readathon with my completion of the End-of-Event Survey: 1. Which hour was most daunting for you? I flagged around Hour 11 or so; after I finished my cheerleading shift, it was a bit challenging to get back into reading mode and I kept fighting off the urge to take a nap! Hours 18-21 (11 PM-1:45 AM local time) went surprisingly well, thanks to a […]
Well, it’s past halfway, I’m afraid, and I’m late with the Mid-Event Survey, but I didn’t want to post an update until I actually finished a book! 1. What are you reading right now? I just finished The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure. I think I’ll switch to fiction next: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok. 2. How many books have you read so far? Just one, […]
It’s 5 AM Pacific time – opening bell for the Spring 2011 24-Hour Readathon! I have never lasted through the entire 24 hours, and I don’t expect things to be any different this time, but it’s always fun to see just how long I make it! I will be spending most of the day – and into the night – here: But that chair’s in the same room as the TV, so there will probably […]
Because I have barely had time for blog-reading this week (again!) I don’t have a proper Week-End Review for you…but I’ll be around this weekend anyway, since I’m participating in the 24-Hour Readathon starting Saturday at 5 AM PDT! I am also taking today off from work to get ready to spend tomorrow reading and blogging about reading – it’s Catch Up and Clear the Decks Day! Friday Fill-Ins 1. In the near darkness I […]
I’ve been taking part in the Music Diary Project this week, posting daily updates to it on Tumblr. At some point – once it’s over, probably, and in the mythical time when I have “more time” – I plan to go back through the entries and see what sort of thoughts they provoke. Most of the posts are just straightforward lists of whatever music I was listening to over a period of time, but a couple […]
The Uncoupling Meg Wolitzer Riverhead Hardcover (2011), Hardcover (ISBN 159448788X / 9781594487880) Fiction, 288 pages Source: Publisher, via TLC Book Tours Reason for reading: blog tour Opening Lines: “People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness. The bright points of silver. The butter in its oblong dish. The corpse […]
This year’s big tech buzzword is “clouds.” Are you ready to fly? Weekend Assignment #364: Ahead in the Clouds? Suddenly the marketing departments of Microsoft and other tech giants are all about “the cloud” or “clouds,” the practice of storing large files online and streaming them rather than everyone storing them locally on their hard drives. Do you think this is a good idea, a bad idea or both? Extra Credit: Do you still buy CDs […]
Despite the fact that I’m part of the Weekly Geeks blog team (I do recaps for the site every few weeks), I’m a rather inconsistent Weekly Geeks participant. But this week I’m joining in, as Wendy presents us with a change-of-(reading)-seasons opportunity to take stock: Spring has sprung…the flowers are coming up, baby animals are being born, everything is green and new. Many of us are spring-cleaning or organizing, rethinking and pondering changes…and so I […]
One thing that hasn’t been going on much during the last week is reading, I’m sorry to say. I had thought that my 4-day birthday weekend would afford me a nice amount of time for both reading and writing, but I got in sadly little of either. Combine that with an extra-busy time at work, and complicate that with shortened work days due to my physical-therapy appointments (now down to two times a week instead […]
I know, I celebrated a blogiversary and a birthday last month…and then I disappeared! It wasn’t intentional – in fact, it was a surprise to me too. I had plans to work on some post drafts and spend a good amount of time reading during my extended Birthday Weekend, but…well, you know how it goes with plans sometimes. I wound up using that time for some housecleaning and shopping instead, and once I returned to […]
