Thursdays are usually review days around here. Today I’m offering a movie review – because I haven’t managed to finish my current read – but not wanting to stray from books entirely, I’m answering this week’s book-themed “Randomness” meme. Randomness: Bookworms (hosted by Naida) 1. What are you currently reading? Still reading Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller. It’s a long book, so […]
Tag: Weekly Geeks
Weekly Geeks #11 – Helping Dewey Move
Weekly Geeks #11 is a special assignment – a request for help from our fearless WG leader, Dewey. She says: Here’s the thing. I have a big pile of books waiting to be reviewed.I have less than two weeks before I move. I do not want to have to packand move all these books. So what I would like is some help gettingthese books reviewed, so that I can post my reviews and get rid […]
Weekly Geeks #10 – The Magazine Rack
This week’s Weekly Geeks theme is to talk about the magazines we read, and Dewey even provided a handy little meme to get it going. I almost feel like an impostor participating in this one, since my magazine reading has really dwindled since I got involved with blogging, especially since several of my preferred magazines also offer a lot of their content online. There’s only so much time for off-line reading, and given the choice, […]
Weekly Geeks #9: Challenging…
I haven’t exactly been a “weekly” geek lately, but I’m back in for this week’s theme, “Challenges.” Dewey says: 1. If you participate in any challenges, get organized! Update your lists, post about any you haven’t mentioned, add links of reviews to your lists if you do that, go to the challenge blog if there is one and post there, etc. 2. If you don’t participate in any challenges, then join one! There’s a good […]
Weekly Geeks: Telling stories with (motion) pictures – with bonus movie review!
This week’s Weekly Geeks topic puts down the books to consider other forms of storytelling. Dewey says: This week’s theme was suggested by Renay. She says, “I thought it would be cool to ask people to talk about other forms of story-telling.” This theme is once again one you could approach several ways. You might want to tell about the forms of storytelling (aside from books) you love. Maybe you enjoy TV shows, movies, music, […]
Weekly Geeks #3: Kid Stuff
Weekly Geeks #3 is on! Dewey says: This week’s theme comes from Samantha, who suggested that one week we all write about our fond memories of childhood books. You could approach this several ways. I’ll probably list my favorite childhood books with maybe a paragraph about each book: why I loved it, how old I was when I read it, where I got the book, etc. You could also just pick one childhood favorite and […]
Weekly Geeks #2 – book review linkage!
* This week in Weekly Geeks – Weaving a book-review web. Quoting from Dewey: The theme for Week 2 is something borrowed (yes, she said it was ok!) from Darla at Books and Other Thoughts. She says in her sidebar that if she reviews a book that you’ve reviewed, you can email her and she’ll link to it in her review. I love this idea for three reasons. 1. As a blog reader, I like […]
Book events – Binges, Festivals and Carnivals
Here’s a fairly painless challenge, especially for those of you who would be reading anyway – MaryP is hosting her annual Book Binge during May. Details: For the month of May, participants keep track of each and every book you read. At the end of the month, everyone will blog their list of books. Simple, no? For simplicity’s sake, and to allow people time to hear about it and sign up if they want, we’ll […]
