My Book Talk Master List, which is always linked in my sidebar, contains links to all the posts where I have reviewed books, and has been updated for 2008 year-to-date. Strictly from a number-crunching perspective, 35 books works out to about 1.5 weeks per book or 0.6 books per week, which is probably not bad generally, but for someone who counts herself as a member of the book-blogging community, it’s just sad. If I were […]
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Weekly Geeks #20: The year’s best (so far), Audience Participation edition!
You may recall that the object of Weekly Geeks #19 was to start compiling a list of book bloggers’ top books published during 2008. This week, Dewey is proposing an expansion on that assignment: Let’s see if we can get our readers to help us come up with our one big top books of 2008 list. The more contributors we have, the more accurately our final list will reflect the book blogosphere’s opinions. So if […]
Weekly Geeks #19 – The year’s best (so far), plus a Read-a-Thon alert
Dewey‘s trying to get a headstart on the year-end book wrap-up with Weekly Geeks #19: I want to have Weekly Geeks come up with one big Best of 2008 list. Here’s how I see it working. First, this week, your WG theme is to list your top books published in 2008. I’m not asking for any specific number of favorite books, because some people don’t read many brand new books. If you’ve only read two […]
BBAW: A current-events-inspired YA-literature flashback
She’s 17 and pregnant. But with her parents’ support – or is it at their demand? – she’s going to marry her high-school jock-star boyfriend, and they’re going to have that baby. It ordinarily wouldn’t be big news outside of her family, but when your mother is running for Vice President, well…family business becomes the world’s business. The Bristol Palin story sounds a lot like the plotline of some of the young-adult (YA) novels I […]
It’s a win-win-win-win!
Thanks to everyone who entered my Second Chance at Summer (Reading) Re-Gifting Giveaway! About 40 people entered, although some got extra chances because they posted about it on their blogs. Some book bags were more popular than others, so that affected your odds of winning. Entries closed on Friday, and I did four drawings today, one for each book bag, using random numbers for each entry generated by random.org. And now for the winners! Bag […]
The Second Chance at Summer [Reading] Re-Gifting Giveaway!
PLEASE NOTE: This giveaway ended on September 5, and winners were announced on September 7. Comments have been closed. I’ve been blogging here for nearly a year and a half, and have never officially done a giveaway, so I guess I’ll make up for that oversight now. (I’ll also be hosting another one in a few weeks – details to come!) As I mentioned here, I was a lucky winner of the Hachette Book Group’s […]
Welcome to BOOKWORMS CARNIVAL #14 – You’re Never Too Old!
Welcome to the August 2008 Bookworms Carnival (Edition #14)! This month’s theme is “You’re Never Too Old,” and it’s based on children’s and young-adult literature. While we’re all adults here(chronologically, at least), many of us embraced reading early in our lives, and some of our fondest memories of childhood involve the books we loved then – and, in many cases, still do. I reminisced about some of my own favorites in this Weekly Geeks post […]
Book Talk Index: Book Reviews listed by Title
This list will be updated each time I post a new book review, and is permanently linked in the tabs above the blog header. (If the title isn’t linked to the review, it will be soon; the review just hasn’t posted yet.) My reviews are also posted on LibraryThing. If you’ve reviewed any of these books and would like me to add a link to your post at the bottom of mine, please e-mail me […]
Book talk: The “Nursery Crimes” series
The Big Over Easy andThe Fourth Bearboth by Jasper Fforde After a couple of fairly serious fiction reads, and before tackling the followup to The Kite Runner for my next book club meeting, I wanted something light. I’m a big fan of Jasper Fforde’s series about Thursday Next, Literary Detective (a new adventure just published – yay!), and have had the two installments (thus far) in his “Nursery Crimes” series waiting on one of my […]
Vacation reading
The title is a minor fib – this catch-up post includes one book I didn’t get to write about before I went out of town last week (but that’s a separate post). Family History, Dani Shapirofrom Amazon.com: In Family History, Dani Shapiro has written such a nail biter of a plot that it’s easy to overlook just how good–and how literary–a novel this really is. Narrator Rachel Jensen is a housewife and art restorer married […]
April’s reading so far…
Waiting, Ha JinFrom Amazon.com: From Publishers WeeklyJin’s quiet but absorbing second novel (after In the Pond) captures the poignant dilemma of an ordinary man who misses the best opportunities in his life simply by trying to do his duty as defined first by his traditional Chinese parents and later by the Communist Party. Reflecting the changes in Chinese communism from the ’60s to the ’80s, the novel focuses on Lin Kong, a military doctor who […]
Not really “Marching” on…
March 2007 Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet WaldmanFrom Amazon.com: From Publishers Weekly How a five-year-old manages to make the adults in his life hew to the love he holds for them is the sweet treat in this honest, brutal, bitterly funny slice of life. When Emelia’s day-old daughter, Isabel, succumbs to SIDS, her own life stalls. She can’t work; she can’t sleep; Central Park, once her personal secret garden, now is a minefield of […]
