There’s little to report on either the “reading” or “writing” fronts this week, and that was almost enough to make me consider skipping this post entirely. But since I’m not sure I’ll be getting much more done on those fronts during the next few days either, I decided I didn’t want to do a complete disappearing act today. And so–here I am, with bullet points and a few questions. I finished listening to The Teacher […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen Well, I’m sorry to report that I followed up a good reading week with a week in which very little reading of any kind happened. I spent yesterday afternoon catching up with my feed reader, and ’m hoping to spend some time today reading Reunion by Hannah Pittard so I can get a mostly-timely review done for Shelf Awareness. I’m in one of those stages where there are actually a lot of books I’d like to […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen Well, my double-teaming of the ARCs didn’t quite work out; I had to pick one to stick with. But I’m finishing it this weekend and returning to the other today, so it’s OK. Considering what my work week was like, I’m mildly impressed with myself for getting through a 400-page galley. And…I’ve been reading blogs! Every day! I’m not leaving much evidence of it with comments, but I do have […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen October is a huge month for publishing, and a reason I’m doing something I rarely do: double-teaming ARCs for Shelf Awareness reviews. The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. is a new novel by Gina B. Nahai, out on October 7. I’ve read two of her earlier novels, Cry of the Peacock andMoonlight on the Avenue of Faith; her niche in writing about Iranian Jews, both in Iran and in exile in America, is […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen I feel like I’ve been reading a fair amount–and I seem to have a backlog of not-yet-written reviews to (NOT) show for it! My plans to catch up on review writing last Sunday pretty much fizzled, a very busy week at the office–I got out late nearly every day except Friday–left me without much time or energy for tackling it, and starting on a few new books […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen I finished reading The Interestings on the iPad yesterday, and resumed my long-dormant reading of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World, which I started back in the spring. I can’t recall setting it aside for any particular reason–OK, truthfully, maybe it was because I’d gotten to the Twilight section–but the piece I’m working on about our “Summer of Supernatural” has inspired me to get back into it. I’m thinking that there’s […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen I’m in between print reads at the moment. I finished a very thought-provoking galley yesterday morning, which I’ve submitted for a Shelf Awareness review. I always repost those here, but this one will either have a lot of “reaction” added to it when I do, or it will get two posts devoted to it. The book is Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond. As it happens, I actually am “against […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen I haven’t quite finished The Leftovers yet, but I’m trying to do so before I go out of town on Thursday–I hate traveling with a physical book that’s more than half-finished. It’s less of an issue with ebooks or audiobooks, since they don’t take up space in the same way, but I’m not sure I’ll have even reached that point in The Interestings by then, given that I’m triple-booking it at […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen Things haven’t changed too much since my Week 2 Check-in for the From Left to Write Summer Reading Challenge. I I finished The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry on my e-reader last night, and will be working on my writeup today; I haven’t decided on my next e-book read yet. Last week, I dug out the galley of The Leftovers I got three years ago(!) because it’s a TV series now, and since […]
Since it’s a long holiday weekend here in the USA and many of us just might be doing other things, I’m keeping the words to a minimum here today. I just thought I’d show you how my 2014 reading activity is looking, since we’re halfway through the year now. Books Added to my collection | Create Infographics Books read by genre category | Create Infographics Book review Ratings Summary | Create Infographics Subscribe to Blog […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen It’s summer. It’s the midpoint of the year(!). And I want to do some non-required reading with my eyes and not my ears. I’m not giving up on audiobooks, of course, but it’s been feeling as if that’s the only format I’m reading for fun. I’m getting antsy and mildly rebellious. One reason I bought myself the iPad mini for my birthday is that it’s a more […]
What I’m reading in print / on screen To my own surprise–because it’s been a while–I’m on track with review deadlines for Shelf Awareness. I have one more July release to submit to them, and am trying to decide which of the August review candidates they’ve sent me to start first. And I think I may be able to double-team it with something completely discretionary—I haven’t decided what it will be yet, but I’ve added quite […]
