This week on Weekly Geeks, Terri asks about reading plans for the rest of the year: It’s hard to believe we’re approaching the last quarter of 2009. Soon those of us in the northern hemisphere will be curled up in front of the fire (or solar heater) with our favorite wintry reads, and those in the southern will be off to the beaches with their summer books. Do you have a plan of what you’re […]
Yesterday was the “official” BBAW Reading Meme Day, so I’m late, but I didn’t want to miss out completely. The BBAW Blog has a list of short-answer questions for participants to answer if they choose, but I’m going be different as well as late; I’m responding to another meme entirely, but it does concern reading and blogging, so I’m counting it anyway. Many book bloggers have already addressed the questions raised by author Shannon Hale […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report My Question of the Week, as asked on Twitter this past Tuesday: Will I get blackballed from the book-blogging community because I haven’t read The Hunger Games and sat out the release-day hoopla for Catching Fire this week? Seriously, someone tell me it’s OK. I need to know. ** Actually, I don’t need to know any more…I ordered them both on Wednesday. I still have no idea how soon I’ll […]
For this Weekend Assignment, I ventured to a website I had successfully avoided for years. In order to fulfill Karen‘s instructions, I had to enter the wild world of I Can Haz Cheezburger. Weekend Assignment: #281: Create a LOLcat (or a LOLdog, or a LOLpig, a LOLhorse or whatever). If you can do it with your own pet photo, great, but alternatively you can just describe what it would look like. Don’t forget the humorous […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report By the Numbers: Book reviews posted in 2009 so far: 28 Books read for the RYOB 2009 Challenge: 12 (goal is 20) Books received for review in 2009, to date: 30 Books acquired in 2009, to date, from all sources: 97 (!) (Evidently, receiving review copies of books is not having the slightest detrimental effect on my book-purchasing habits!) Books in the LibraryThing “To Read” collection: 229 (That number is […]
This Weekly Geeks assignment definitely hit close to home. Ruth asked: I think just about every reader has a least one book that they’ve been meaning to read for awhile (months or even years) but, for one reason or another, they just haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe it’s a book a friend recommended last year, or a title you’ve flirted with in a bookstore on more than one occasion, or maybe it’s a book […]
Following up the “15 Books That Will Always Stick With You” meme (I posted mine in a TBIF/Booking Through Thursday response in June), it’s time to go to the movies! The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen movies you’ve seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Both my husband and my sister tagged me for this on Facebook, but they […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted: Admission, by Jean Hanff Korelitz Currently reading/Upcoming reviews: The Weight of Silence: A Novel, by Heather Gudenkauf (for TLC Book Tours, scheduled for September 1) Teaser: “Petra was explaining to Fielda and me how their first grade classroom conducted experiments on how far those little plastic sports cars, Hot Wheels, I think they are called, could travel, when we came across the Clark family huddled in a […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted: Wife of the Gods, by Kwei Quartey Upcoming reviews: Admission, by Jean Hanff Korelitz (read on Kindle) The Last Bridge, by Teri Coyne (for LibraryThing Early Reviewers) The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel, by Garth Stein The Weight of Silence: A Novel, by Heather Gudenkauf (for TLC Book Tours) New additions to the LibraryThing “To Read” collection: For review – The Package Deal: My […]
When my my blogging space was featured in “Scene of the Blog” on Kittling: Books last week, two things about it generated the most comments: the fact that it’s my kitchen island, where the sink is (and yes, I am well aware of the splash risk, since I’m the one who usually causes it), and the refrigerator magnets shown in the background. I have two things I like to collect from travel and touristy locations – […]
I was planning to include this in today’s TBIF post, but decided to give it its own space instead, since responses are being collected in a Mr. Linky at the Book Blogger Appreciation Week blog. Besides, it’s not breaking any laws if I sometimes post twice in one day! A Book Blogger Appreciation Week Meme If you were a part of BBAW last year, please answer these simple questions on your blog and drop your […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted: None since July 20(!!). Conferencing, and following it up with a lot of writing, took a serious toll on reading time! I have good intentions to get back on the train in August, though – at least partly spurred by review obligations that actually have due dates – so wish me luck with improving my record! Upcoming reviews: Wife of the Gods: A Novel, by Kwei Quartey […]
