Do you remember my mentioning a couple of months ago that I had submitted a proposal for a Book Bloggers “Room of Your Own” at the BlogHer’10 Conference, and asking for your votes to help get it on the agenda? Book Bloggers: Reading and Writing All About It Track: Passions Some of us started blogging just to talk about the books we read. Others of us like to talk about the books we read, but […]
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Sunday Salon, Birthday Weekend Edition: Book-buying begins again!
Reading Progress and Plans I’m trying to finish reading Nothing but Ghosts by Beth Kephart this weekend, and I think I’ll accomplish that. I’ll be reviewing it in tandem with Beth’s earlier YA novel, Undercover – I may not post it till next week, though, so as not to divert attention from my review of The Sparrow (see the Read-Along note below). Both of those books count for my Blogging Authors Reading Project, as does […]
Sunday Salon 3/21: So much for the Book-Buying Ban!
Reading Progress and Plans: I’m finishing Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow this weekend for the Read-along, and I posted my responses to our interim discussion of the book earlier this week – thanks to Heather for coordinating it and collecting everyone’s posts! We’re scheduled to post reviews and wrap it up on March 30, so it’s still not too late to join us in reading (or re-reading) this amazing novel; I’d be very surprised if […]
My Friend’s in Town, or Going with the FLOW, period.
Last week, Rebecca of The Book Lady’s Blog gave a glowing review to Elissa Stein and Susan Kim’s Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, a book that’s intrigued me since I first heard about it a few months ago. The review led to a discussion that Rebecca would like to keep flowing (pun intended!): “(T)he conversations that followed both in the comments section of my post and on Twitter were fun and informative. And I […]
Sunday Salon 3/14: Halfway through the Book-Buying Ban!
I’m not including a formal Bookkeeping Status Report section in this post, but I’ll give you a quick update, in accordance with Unfinished Person‘s efforts to keep me honest in meeting the aims of the Sunday Salon: I am making good progress with my re-read of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, as part of the Read-along I’m co-hosting. Read-along-ers, please don’t forget the “in-progress” discussion Heather J. is hosting at Age 30+…A Lifetime of […]
Sunday Salon 3/7: The Festival is coming! The Festival is coming!
April 24-25, 2010, at UCLA The books, the authors, and the book bloggers are coming to the largest public book event in America – will you come, too? Last year, the LA Times Festival of Books was the site for a great first-time meet-up among a group of book bloggers from all around Southern California, and a few from further north who came down for the weekend. In a crowd and in various combinations, we […]
Sunday Salon: The “marching on” edition
Musings on March, or reading through Birthday Month: Since I’ve given up book-buying for Lent (see below), I won’t be adding much to TBR Purgatory between now and the end of March, which is not necessarily a bad thing. However, Easter doesn’t come until a week after my birthday, which means I’ll have to delay gifts to myself (or using bookstore gift cards that I might receive – hint, hint) just a little longer, which […]
Sunday Salon: Bookkeeping, Bookmarking…and Nagging!
ENCORE! The Re-Run Section (if you haven’t read ’em before, they’re New to You!) In case you missed the big announcement on Tuesday, here’s a quick encore: I am co-hosting a Read-Along of Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow with Heather J. from Age 30+…A Lifetime of Books and Rebecca of The Book Lady’s Blog. It’s a re-read for us, but we’d love for both first-timers and other re-readers to join us! To help get you […]
Sunday Salon: What’s Valentine’s Day got to do with it? (Pretty much nothing, to be honest.)
Booking Through Thursday asked a very good question this week: How can you encourage a non-reading child to read? What about a teen-ager? Would you require books to be read in the hopes that they would enjoy them once they got into them, or offer incentives, or just suggest interesting books? If you do offer incentives and suggestions and that doesn’t work, would you then require a certain amount of reading? At what point do […]
Sunday Salon: Guess who’s in a book? No, really!
BREAKING NEWS: GUESS WHO’S BEEN PUBLISHED – IN AN ACTUAL BOOK?! I haven’t previously shared the details of this with anyone except my husband because I didn’t entirely believe it would happen, but a post of mine from September 2007 has been published in an essay anthology. (I’m trying to sound matter-of-fact about it, but trust me, I’m totally SQUEE-ing on the inside!) Early last year, I received an e-mail “…to inquire about an essay […]
Writing about Reading: Answering Amy’s Questions
There’s been a bit of discussion about being a “public reader” during the last week or two, and not exactly in the sense of “being seen in public with a book,” which has never bothered me in the slightest. Amy posed some questions about being a public reader, and I thought I’d answer them here. How do you balance your reading? I think this could question could be interpreted many ways, but in this context, […]
Sunday Salon: Conferencing, Bookmarking, questioning, and so on…
A query for those of you with e-book readers (regardless of brand): Do you find that your reading speed with an e-book differs from that with a print copy? I’m noticing that I don’t seem to read books on my Kindle as quickly as I read trade paperbacks, and I’m trying to figure out why. I’d understand it if I were multi-tasking – and, incidentally, I’ve found that the most successful way for me to […]
