In honor of the season, these come from my “Christmas” playlist. “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (A mildly guilty pleasure, this one, but fun)“White Christmas,” Bing Crosby (As far as Tall Paul’s concerned, no one else ever needs to record this song)“Holly Jolly Christmas,” Burl Ives (One of my top favorite holiday songs! It’s just so cheery.)“The Nutcracker Suite,” The Brian Setzer Orchestra (Not the version from your ballet class…)“Winter Wonderland,” […]
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Booking Through Thursday 12-20: Best of 2007
What fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007?(Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’t count.) What non-fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007?(Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’t count.) And, do “best of” lists influence your reading? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual […]
Wiki Wednesday 12-19-07
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! Today we’re going fishing: The slender codling or slender cod, Halargyreus johnsonii, is a morid cod, the only species in the genus Halargyreus. It is found in all oceans, at depths of between 450 and 3,000 m, and grows to between 15 and 55 cm. The slender codling is a small slender deepwater species with twin […]
Ten on Tuesday 12-18: New Year’s Resolutions
I’ve never really been one to make New Year’s resolutions. I don’t think there’s anything magical about January 1. If you want to change something in your life, you can do it any time you decide to – the beginning of next month, the first day of summer, next Monday, tomorrow, five minutes from now! New Year’s Day is an artificial milestone. For example, if you decide you’re going to start a healthy new habit […]
“Five (more) Things” – a guest post by my husband
During a slow morning, Tall Paul was inspired by Thursday’s “Five Things” post to do the meme himself. He e-mailed it to me, and has kindly allowed me to post it – his first blog post! (I’ve tried to get him to write guest posts for me a few times, but so far he hasn’t gone for it.) I’d like to introduce you to my husband. 5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:1. Buying […]
iPod Random Ten 12-14-07
“I Believe She’s Lying,” Rhett Miller, The Believer Rhett’s band, the Old 97s, have been on the alt-country music scene for years, but he works out his more pop-oriented side on his solo albums. I like the rhymes and wordplay in this track. “Mony Mony,” Billy Idol, Greatest Hits One of the great party classics for amateur partiers like me. “I’m No Angel,” Gregg Allman, I’m No Angel I’ve always liked this song – for […]
‘Tis the season to play Christmas Q&A
I got this via e-mail from one of my offline book club buddies, and thought I’d answer it here. If you’d like to play along, please do – just leave me a comment so I’ll know to go check out your answers! 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Depends on the gift. Sometimes I wrap it and then put it in a gift bag.2. Tree – real or artificial? Fake3. When do you put the […]
Five Things, and another Five Things
I’ve come across two very different versions of the “Five Things” meme recently, so I’ve decided to combine them in one post. The first group comes via Literary Feline: 5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:1. Planning the first Christmas in our new house.2. Looking for a new job.3. Training new people at the job I already had.4. Hoping for snow.5. Reading. 5 Things on my T0-Do List today: 1. Get the November cash-receipts […]
Booking Through Thursday 12-13: Catalog
Do you use any of the online book-cataloguing sites, like Library Thing or Shelfari? Why or why not? (Or . . . do you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking to?? (grin)) If not an online catalog, do you use any other method to catalog your book collection? Excel spreadsheets, index cards, a notebook, anything? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) […]
Wiki Wednesday 12-12-07
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! It came from outer space! The Borealis quadrangle is a quadrangle on Mercury surrounding the north pole down to 65° latitude (see also: geography of Mars). It contains the Goethe Basin, whose diameter of at least 400 km (250 mi) makes it the sixth-largest impact basin observed on Mariner 10 images[1][2][3](Murray and others, 1974; Boyce and […]
Ten on Tuesday 12-11: 10 Things You Want for Christmas
My husband actually requests a wish list from everyone in the family at Christmastime. He’s the administrator, passing out items from the list to extended-family members who need gift ideas, and keeping others for us. (Of course, he also makes his own wish list, which he gives to me to manage.) In any case, I’d already done some of my homework for this week’s assignment. “iPod my car!” This would involve a new iPod-compatible stereo […]
iPod Random Ten 12-7-07
Bonus tracks edition this week – free lyric excerpts and commentary! “But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees“ – “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead,” XTC, Nonesuch(A catchy little song about persecution, sort of a companion piece to their earlier “Dear God” if you read a little too much into it) “I’m not here for your entertainment –You don’t really want to mess with me tonight“ – […]
