I mentioned that I had to go on maternity leave for my reading jobs, so my On Reading posts will no longer mean that I read a book for work. I could be a stickler for consistency and just stop doing them, but they’re just too much fun–especially when I catch the fever for a really great meme like the one accidentally started by the Accidental Novelist, and picked up by Poodlerat. Here are 13 opening lines (or two) to books that are beloved by…
Happy Booking Through Thursday, everyone! Today’s suggestion is from Cereal Box Reader: I would enjoy reading a meme about people’s abandoned books. The books that you start but don’t finish say as much about you as the ones you actually read, sometimes because of the books themselves or because of the circumstances that prevent you from finishing. So . . . what books have you abandoned and why? I just abandoned a book the other day… Marge Piercy’s Vida. See, I finally got around to…
I was one of the prize donors for Dewey’s recent Read-a-Thon. I offered 2 Bookmooch points–one for the winner, and one to be given to the Bookmooch charity of the winner’s choosing. The winner was Debi with a limerick about Ray Bradbury’s Halloween Tree: Tom Skelton and friends took quite a trip, Through space and time, they did fly and flip, Learning much about night, And things that cause fright, And in the end, they saved their friend Pip. Since Debi is not a Bookmoocher,…
The 24-hour read-a-thon is up and running, and I’m sending out good reading vibes to all the participants: 1 More Chapter A Patchwork of Books A Striped Armchair Aquatique Bebo Author Becky's Books Book Glutton Bookgirl's Nightstand Dog's Eye View Ed's Thread Eliza Tucker Errant Dreams Jason Erik Lundberg Joystory Just Another Musing Keeper of the Snails Life Naked Without Books Nothing of Importance OCD Man Pages Turned S.M.S. Book Reviews So Many Books So Many Books, So Little Time Teen Book Review The Armenian…
This week’s meme: You may or may not have seen my post at Punctuality Rules Tuesday, about a book I recently bought that had the actual TITLE misspelled on the spine of the book. A glaring typographical error that really (really!) should have been caught. So, using that as a springboard, today’s question: What’s the worst typographical error you’ve ever found in (or on) a book? I have two huge pet peeves that sometimes make it into published books: using “loose” for “lose” and “phased”…
My work read tonight wasn’t great, but at least it was quick. The two readers in the title of this post are me and one of you. So, with permission, I’m sharing this lovely email I received from TG in Ireland: Thank you so much for your posts and for sharing your devotion to reading with us! Reading your posts everyday has re-aligned my own passion for reading, and now I’m experiencing so much more joy from it! It’s great to get reviews from someone…
Synopsis: When Clay receives a box of cassette tapes recorded by a girl who recently committed suicide, he wonders why he was chosen as one of her thirteen reasons. Review: Compelling premise ultimately founders on muddled execution. Asher throws in at least four separate social problems as part of Hannah’s reasons for her suicide, and the construction ends up feeling far too contrived. This has the odd effect of making the story seem small, as though all of the suffering endured by the various characters…
Check out the latest Bookworms Carnival, live at This is the Life. Lots of books on here I haven’t heard of, so I’m excited to see what I’ll be adding to my TBR pile…
And what a great year it’s been… I get so much pleasure out of blogging about the books I’m reading, not to mention interacting with commenters and other book bloggers. I’ve catalogued the books I own on Librarything, Goodreads is a growing list of all the books I’ve ever read, and I’m giving away books on Bookmooch. I have 330 posts. Now, my general rule is that I only post when I’ve finished a book, but I went through my archive and counted about 25…
Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a movie buff as well as a Superfast Reader. So, in honor of today’s work read, I’m posting an entry in the Close-Up Blogathon, hosted by my friends over at The House Next Door. Matt Seitz has already posted a fabulous article on one of the final images in Raising Arizona. I’m also dedicating this post to the closing images in Into the Wild–a man’s face intercut with a man’s memories, confession, repentance, and salvation all on…