I should know better, and yet every now and then I attempt it anyway. I’m currently reading polygamously – I have three books going at once. Technically, it’s four books, since one of them is a special edition containing two novels, but I’ve finished one of the stories in it; however, I won’t review that one until I finish the book itself. (I’m being a stickler, despite the fact that it may mean I won’t […]
I just looked at the calendar, and there are not quite eight weeks left in 2009 (!). Soon I’ll be putting together my Books of the Year picks and my Year in Review posts. It may be a little more challenging this year. I’ve read more books than the 35 I managed last year (yay!), and I’m pretty sure I’ll knock out a few more before the end of December. But I’ve also read quite […]
It’s a reading challenge that was born on Twitter, in a comment Eva made after finishing a book last week: someone should start a “women’s studies” reading challenge. As tends to happen, book bloggers jumped in and out of the discussion, and within a few hours, a name, a hashtag, and a challenge blog were launched: Women Unbound! Full disclosure, as mentioned in the “Community Credit” item on the blog’s sidebar – I was part […]
The Salon is on the short side this week – I think I’ve been in Readathon Recovery mode for most of it! BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: The Possibility of Everything, by Hope Edelman Next reviews scheduled: Love the One You’re With, by Emily Giffin The Hunger Games/Catching Fire (dual review), by Suzanne Collins Currently reading: The Longest Trip Home, by John Grogan (TLC Book Tour stop scheduled for November […]
I didn’t get the opportunity to post my response to last week’s Weekly Geeks query, but since there wasn’t a new one for this week – WG took the week off to observe Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon this past Saturday – I’m squeezing it in before the next theme goes up this coming weekend! Last week, Ruth asked about Tools of the Trade: Book blogging, as a concept, is essentially pretty simple: If you have Internet […]
See below for my final Read-a-thon Update! BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (this post includes a guest review from my sister) Next reviews scheduled: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman (ARC from the publisher) New to my LibraryThing “To Read” collection: for me, from the “biography and memoir” section: Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life, by Quinn Cummings Manhood […]
There’s a 24 Hour Read-a-thon going on tomorrow, starting at 5 AM Pacific time. (On Saturday?! Oh, what the heck, I get up at 4:30 most mornings anyway.) I have the day off from work today to get some chores and errands out of the way before the event gets started, and another vacation day on Monday for additional recovery time! I posted my prospective reading list in my Sunday Salon post earlier this week. […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Goldengrove, by Francine Prose Next reviews scheduled: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman (ARC from the publisher) Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (RYOB Challenge, Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge) – still reading this weekend to coincide with the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk that my family and I did yesterday, but I plan to finish and review it before the end of this week New […]
If you’re visiting The 3 R’s for the first time via the Sunday Salon feed, welcome, and please take a look around! While you’re here, why not take a few minutes to enter one of my three 1000-Post Celebration Giveaways? They’re still open for a few more days – the last day to enter is Wednesday, October 14! Here’s what you could win (you may enter only one giveaway): #1: ARC Fiction Package These Advance […]
One thing that surprised me when I began reading more and more book blogs is how many bloggers were regularly talking about books classified as “young adult” – and I wasn’t reading book blogs written by teens (although there are plenty of those around). Most of the readers and bloggers were women – some younger than me, some roughly my contemporaries – and many of them didn’t have tween or teen children of their own. […]
On this first day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2009, participants are encouraged to share the book-blog love: The first day of BBAW, Monday September 14th, we encourage you to write a post thanking and spotlighting your favorite blogs that didn’t make the shortlists. Those “shortlists” would be the ones related to the BBAW Awards, which I talked more about last Friday: nearly 40 categories, 1000 blogs originally nominated across them all, now down to […]
A few members of the “Southern California book-blogging sorority” met up this past weekend in Irvine, where we were joined by special out-of-town guests – Jen from Devourer of Books, visiting from Chicago, and baby Daniel! Jules of A Book in Hand was there too, and it was all organized by My Friend Amy. We spent a couple of pleasant hours talking about books and blogging; Jen has more details about it in her Sunday […]
