We’ll start this week’s travels at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and LaBrea Avenue… …where this pavilion marks the beginning… …of this! This song gets stuck in my head every time I take this walk: Everybody’s a dreamer, everybody’s a star, And everybody’s in movies, it doesn’t matter who you are. There are stars in every city, In every house and on every street, And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Their names are written […]
Outside the Ordinary World Dori Ostermiller Mira (2010), Edition: Original Paperback (ISBN 0778328899 / 9780778328896) Fiction: 400 pages Source: Publisher, via TLC Book Tours Reason for reading: Blog tour/review Opening Lines: “I’m pacing circles in the family therapist’s waiting room, trying to discern what my daughter is saying on the other side of that door. Hannah hasn’t spoken to me in days, but she seems to have plenty to say to a stranger: I can […]
Remember Banned Books Week? It was a little over a month ago, and many of us defended the freedom of access to books, regardless of their content: “I’m very much in favor of the freedom to read what one chooses to read – and in order to make those choices well, one needs access to the full range of choices. I also believe in the freedom to choose not to read something. But I believe […]
This review is part of the Green Books Campaign.Today 200 bloggers take a stand to support books printed in an eco-friendly manner by simultaneously publishing reviews of 200 books printed on recycled or FSC-certified paper. By turning a spotlight on books printed using eco- friendly paper, we hope to raise the awareness of book buyers and encourage everyone to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. The campaign is organized for the second time […]
Yes, this writing prompt is called the “Weekend” Assignment, but we have until midnight tomorrow (Wednesday) to respond to it, and I’m issuing a special invitation to my bookish buddies to join in this week. You can find the guidelines on the the post with this week’s topic: Weekend Assignment # 343: Read It Again Some people like to read a book once, and then they’re done. The plot is resolved and they know whodunnit, […]
Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life Quinn Cummings (Twitter) Hyperion (2009), Paperback (ISBN 1401322867 / 9781401322861) Memoir/Humor, 272 pages Source: Personal/purchased Reason for reading: Blogging Authors Reading Project Opening Lines: “This wasn’t in my plans for the day. “Alice and I attended a parent-and-child art class. While Alice mused over a composition that would be entitled in future catalogs of her work as Meditations on Pink Tissue, Elmer’s Glue, and […]
For the second year in a row, I’m publicly saying NO to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I love to read, and I love to write. Also, I love to write about what I read, otherwise my blog would never have been born. I think there are some truths about life and humanity and why we are the way we are that are best explored through fiction. I think that fiction can help us […]
I don’t work in the entertainment industry, but I do work in an office just off Hollywood Boulevard. I took a walk one day at lunch and took some photos around the neighborhood, and I’ll share a few with you each Saturday this month – NaBloPoMo participants are allowed “Wordless Weekends.” Welcome to Tinseltown! Today we’ll follow the stars… …to the world-famous Grauman’s Chinese Theater, and see who’s left their footprints in the courtyard. It’s […]
I won’t be taking up too much of your time this Friday…but since I’m doing NaBloPoMo, you won’t get a break from me tomorrow, so it all evens out! I’m sure you’ve heard there was an election this week – and no matter how you feel about the way it all turned out, I hope you voted! Julie takes a fairly moderate look at how change begets change, while April’s glad we’re done with campaign […]
#fullpost { display: inline; } I call it “TBR Purgatory” for a reason – books come in and languish for an indeterminate amount of time before I decide their fate. If they arrive with a due date – publication or review-tour commitment – they’ll get out sooner. Some – granted, not all that many – arrive in hardcover and are still unread when the paperback hits bookstores. And occasionally, when one is finally sprung from […]
When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books (2009), Hardcover (ISBN 0385737424 / 9780385737425) Fiction (children’s/YA), 208 pages Source: Personal/purchased copy Reason for reading: leftover from 24-Hour Readathon, follow-up to my re-read of A Wrinkle in Time Opening Lines: “So Mom got the postcard today. It says Congratulations in big curly letters, and at the very top is the address of Studio TV-15 on West 58th Street. After three years of trying, she has […]
It’s been three years since I last participated in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). Originally held in November to coincide with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), NaBloPoMo is now every month, but November’s the only time I seriously consider joining in. That’s partly because I have a traditionalist streak, but also because November is the only month that doesn’t have a designated blogging theme. I can commit to daily posting for a month, but not […]
