This has been wandering around the book blogs for a little while now – I’m appropriating it from my good friend Wendy (aka Literary Feline). This is a non-comprehensive list of 110 books that have been banned; as Wendy notes, “…(t)his is just a small sampling of the books that have been banned over the years, however. Think of all those that did not make this particular list. The Harry Potter books, for example” and […]
Friday Q&A, back on schedule
Tuesday Thingers Last week I asked what was the most popular book in your library- this week I’m going to ask about the most unpopular books you own. Do you have any unique books in your library- books only you have on LT? How many? Did you find cataloging information on your unique books, or did you hand-enter them? Do they fall into a particular category or categories, or are they a mix of different […]
Book talk: “Apples and Oranges,” by Marie Brenner
Disclosure: A copy of this book was sent to me for review via Nicole Bruce at Authors on the Web. I received no other compensation. Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and FoundMarie Brenner Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008 (ISBN 0374173524 / 9780374173524)Memoir, 288 pages First Sentence: We fight at the dinner table. Book Description: Marie Brenner’s brother, Carl—yin to her yang, red state to her blue state—lived in Texas and in the […]
Weekly Geeks #9: Challenging…
I haven’t exactly been a “weekly” geek lately, but I’m back in for this week’s theme, “Challenges.” Dewey says: 1. If you participate in any challenges, get organized! Update your lists, post about any you haven’t mentioned, add links of reviews to your lists if you do that, go to the challenge blog if there is one and post there, etc. 2. If you don’t participate in any challenges, then join one! There’s a good […]
Weekend Assignment #221 – What Are You Drinking?
The Weekend Assignment is posted each Friday at Outpost Mâvarin; a roundup of responses goes up the following Thursday, so if you’d like to join in, you’ve still got some time. Karen says: Don’t worry if you don’t get your entry in by the end of the weekend. It’s called the Weekend Assignment because John Scalzi originally designed it to give folks something to write on weekends, but times have changed since then. Now the […]
Ten on Tuesday Special – Vacation edition
We got home on Monday afternoon, and we don’t go back to work till Wednesday, so today is sort of a “coda” for our vacation. Posts and pictures from the trip will be forthcoming, but in the meantime, here’s a five-and-five personal Ten on Tuesday. 5 Things I Missed While on Vacation: My dog! I think this was the longest (10 days) that we’ve been away from each other. She was actually supposed to stay […]
Ten on Tuesday: That’s history now
I’m not sure what inspired this Ten on Tuesday theme, “10 Favorite Moments in Your Country’s History,” but I suspect that it might be related to a recent event that’s actually on this list; you’ll know what I mean when you read it, I’m sure. (OK, I have to be honest; this post is itself history, since this was actually last week’s theme. Due to my vacation, guest posts, and trying to work out the […]
GUEST POST: Starting the Story Over Again
This is a landmark day for The 3 R’s: the first guest post by an author! (I feel like a real book blogger now!) As it happened, Michelle Richmond found this blog via a mention of her last novel, The Year of Fog, right around the time I posted my guest-blogger request. Her newest novel, No One You Know, is being published this week, and I was thrilled to accept her generous offer to contribute […]
Tag – I’m it!
Pam tagged me weeks ago for the “8 Random Things” meme, and I’m just getting around to it! (Sometimes randomness isn’t as easy as you might think it is.) Here are the rules:Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names. […]
Blog Blast for Education: It just starts with the “three R’s”
No matter what the subject matter or curriculum, I think that education should have one overriding aim – preparing individuals to be functional, contributing members of a civil society. We may want more from our schools than that, but at the root, that’s what I believe their purpose is. The name of this blog was, of course, inspired by the traditional “three R’s” of “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic,” once considered the sum of an education. […]
GUEST POST Book talk: “A Church of Her Own,” by Sarah Sentilles
A big “thank you!” to today’s guest blogger, Veronica, who generously responded to my recent request for guest posts by offering to cross-post a book review of my choice. I selected the following, on a topic which I find quite fascinating, and I which I hope will interest you too. This was originally posted on Veronica’s blog. Find out a little more about her at the end of this post.================================ There’s this book on my […]
More thoughts about change – but what’s news about that?
(I’ve actually had this post in draft for awhile, but I keep finding reasons to put it on hold. But now is probably as good a time as any to run with it, as a follow-up of sorts to my recent Ten on Tuesday post about how the world has changed, and as a self-developed Hump Day Hmm, since vacation plans are causing me to miss one of Julie’s.) My mother-in-law tells us that she […]
