Fantasy Series, Reading Ladies & More–Selections from Problogger’s Top 5

May 9th, 2007 · 6 Comments

In honor of today’s work read, a police procedural that left me hungering for Ruth Rendell, I give you my list of the posts I’ve enjoyed so far from the Problogger Group Writing Project:

Top 5 Most Entertaining Foreign Films of the Last Decade
An fun list of films, though I would quibble and say that City [...]

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Three Character Meme

April 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Found this meme courtesy of Amy, the Sleepy Reader.
Name up to three characters . . .
1. You wish were real so you could meet them:
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Emotional Reads

April 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

I like to be moved by literature, which is why I don’t go crazy for metafiction or postmodernism or overly intellectual fiction (Don DeLillo, Thomas Pyncheon, etc.). Such was the book I read yesterday for work.
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What are the five books in your library (or memory) that stirred the greatest emotive reaction in [...]

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10 Books I Can’t Live Without

March 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

I found this meme over at Bookfoolery and Babble, and heaven knows I love lists. These are the 10 books that form the backbone of my library, the 10 books with which I would never part, the 10 books that I will always reread at every stage of my life. That’s not to [...]

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