So here’s the real reason I decided I wanted to resurrect this blog. I read about the four-legged friends reading challenge over at The Written World and decided that I wanted to join in. Of course, that meant that I would need someplace to post my reviews, so I decided to [...]
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Four-Legged Friends Challenge
Posted in Books, reading challenges, tagged Books, dogs, reading challenge on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Booking through Thursday: Where does the time go?
Posted in Books, meme on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Booking through Thursday asks:
Have you ever missed an important appointment because you have become so engrossed in a book you forgot the time or were up so late reading that you didn’t wake up in time? Been late to work because you couldn’t resist the temptation and left the house too late?
I actually can’t think [...]
Television is the enemy of reading
Posted in Books on April 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now, it’s not going to come to a surprise to most of you that television lives in complete opposition to reading. Every hour of TV watched is an hour we could have spent reading, but I never had much of a problem with this. I watched one, maybe two, television shows a week and that [...]
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Posted in Books, Reviews on April 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For a book that made the Booker shortlist in 2005, Saturday was excruciating to read. Now, I don’t pay a lot of attention to bookers and PEN awards. Maybe I’ll give a Pulitzer or a Nobel a second glance. Maybe. But Saturday literally got drenched in praise. It had praise dripping out of its ears. [...]
ToB Wrap-up
Posted in Books, awards on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So in addition the being Oprah’s latest selection, The Road now has the much more prestigous honor of being this year’s winner of The Rooster in The Morning News’ 3rd annual Tournament of Books. I must say though, that compared to the narrow margin of last year’s championship round, this one was kind of a [...]
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Posted in Books, Reviews on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wow has Douglas Coupland’s writing changed over the years. He’s gone soft in his old age. (Old age being a relative term.) My favorite quote from Generation X, I think captures the old Coupland well:
“You see, when you’re middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have [...]
Let’s just make it a meme day
Posted in Books, meme on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This lovely meme comes to me from A Garden Carried in the Pocket. It’s a nice, superbly random, what have you read meme. It goes like this:
bold the ones you’ve read
highlight the ones you want to read
underline the ones you’ve never heard of
and leave blank the ones you’re not interested in
1. The DaVinci Code [...]
Booking Through Thursday: Location, Location, Location
Posted in Books, coffee, meme on March 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What better way to get us all nice and acquainted than a meme? You know you love them. Ahem, the question from Booking Through Thursday is:
Where do you do most of your reading? Your favorite spot?
I do most of my reading wherever I can. The front desk while I’m working, when I’m waiting before appointments [...]
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
Posted in Books, Psychology, Reviews on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I first came upon this book when I was about fourteen and suffering through what would be the first of many major depressions. I remember standing at a Barnes and Noble table, idly touching the smooth dust jacket and wondering if this book would have answers as to the way I felt. Nearly six [...]
