Truthfully, I would have been bowled over if I had not gotten this result: Are You a Book or a Movie? You Are a Book You are a deliberate thinker. You don’t like to gloss over anything, and details matter to you. When times get tough, you get philosophical. You never forget the meaning of life. If you’re facing a problem, getting away for a couple days always helps you clear your mind. You always […]
It’s been quite a while since I posted Tuesday Tangents – actually, they’ve been more likely to show up on Wendy’s blog lately than here – but I’ve got a few things I’ve been wanting to talk about that just won’t stand as blog posts on their own, so here we go. Are you trying out Google+ yet? (If you’d like to and need an invite, leave me your e-mail and I can send you […]
I’m carrying on with my summer hours – I haven’t posted since Sunday, and I haven’t really had time to compose full-length reactions to a few things I’ve read about recently, so this post will be a bit of a potpourri. I’ll begin with a personal update, in case you missed it on Facebook or Twitter on Monday: I do believe the Shoulder Saga has come to an end! I originally dislocated my right shoulder […]
Inspired by Wallace’s post “How to Get the Most Out of GoodReads” (and a follow-up Twitter discussion with her), I thought I’d tackle my preferred online book site, LibraryThing, in a similar vein. I hope it will be at least half as useful as her GR guide is! I have a GoodReads account. I have friends on GoodReads through that account. They may wonder why they see so few updates from me there… Here’s why. […]
Super 8 Mystery/thriller/sci-fi, 2011 Paramount Pictures / Amblin Entertainment / Bad Robot official movie site Plot summary, via IMDb: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth […]
I’ve had a couple of small disappointments in my social calendar – the one that blends my online social-media life with my admittedly sparse offline social life – this year. I didn’t make it to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in April, which has been the site of some great book-blogger meet-ups for the last couple of years (although I’ve heard hardly anyone else made it either, so that reduced any sense of […]
X-Men: First Class Action/adventure drama, 2011 20th Century Fox / Marvel official movie site Plot summary, via IMDb: “Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a […]
I spent my last morning in New York City building crossing bridges. Well, one bridge, anyway…it connects Brooklyn and Manhattan. This is the Manhattan Bridge, as seen from the bridge I was actually standing on. Jill and Teresa were my companions for a walk across this bridge. I’m sure you know which bridge it is… Meanwhile, down at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge, someone was keeping their bicycle warm and cozy. For the week preceding that walk across […]
One of my favorite things at BEA was making introductions between bloggers. I just think it’s rude not to make introductions when someone comes up to join a conversation already in progress; and when I’m introducing one blogger to another, it’s so much fun to see the spark of recognition when they realize that they already do know one another via their writing. And I’m the non-niche book blogger who was asked to moderate the […]
By choice, I didn’t go to very many book signings at BEA 2011, but two of them were pretty special. Joanne Bamberger’s PunditMom was one of the very first blogs I began following, four long years ago, and she’s introduced me to a number of savvy political women online. Our paths have crossed in a number of ways; both of us blogged for sites in the Silicon Valley Moms Group, and we met in person […]
This is a sticky post for the week of May 23-27. Please scroll down for new material! Whatever has brought you here today, thanks for stopping by! This week, I’m participating in Armchair BEA while on-site in New York City for Book Expo America and the Book Blogger Convention…so I’m here, but not here. I will be checking in frequently, though, so please leave a comment to let me know you visited! This is a […]
It’s been a busy week in New York City! I’ve been tweeting from Book Expo America, but really haven’t had the time or mental energy to do much more. In addition, I left my camera cable at home, so pictures will have to wait until I’m reunited with it. It always strikes me as ironic that bloggers go to blogging events and don’t blog from them; and at this reading-related event, I’ve barely done any […]
