Category Archives: On Reading

ALA’s Home Library Suggestions for Families

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Need help knowing what books to buy for your kids? The American Library Association wants to help: The ALA-Children’s Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee, with cooperation from the ALSC’s Quicklists Consulting Committee, has created the four bibliographies below, “Building a Home Library,” to provide guidance to parents, grandparents, and others interested in assembling a high-quality library for their children at home. The lists are sort of skimpy; this wouldn’t be much of a library. And it skews heavily towards commercially popular books from the last…

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Live and In Person (Booking through Thursday)

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This week’s questions: * Have you ever met one of your favorite authors? Gotten their autograph? * How about an author you felt only so-so about, but got their autograph anyway? Like, say, at a book-signing a friend dragged you to? * How about stumbling across a book signing or reading and being so captivated, you bought the book?

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A Basket of Books for Baby!

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I had baby showers last weekend and this weekend, and since everybody knows I’m a reader, I got a ton of books for Superfast Baby. In fact, the theme of the shower my mom & my high school friend threw was “books” and everybody brought a book to put in this really cute basket. Plus, my best friend from college, who is also a huge reader plus has an MA in Children’s Literature, made me a list of books that she and her kids really…

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Librarything’s Top 106 Unread Books

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This afternoon’s work read was too boring for words. I picked this meme up from BookGal. These are the top 106 books tagged “unread” in Librarything. Why 106? Nobody knows… The rules: Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.

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Last Chance to Win a Free Book!

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The Auralia’s Colors contest closes tonight at midnight EST–and I have good news to report. I have not one, but TWO copies to give away. And both are signed by author Jeffrey Overstreet–here’s a link to the interview if you missed it. Send an email with the subject line AURALIA to superfastreader -at- gmail -dot- com or use the contact form below. The winners will be announced right here tomorrow morning.

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Another Book Contest & the Latest Meme

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Head over to A Shelf Life for a chance to win a book that is too scary-sounding for me–not in a Stephen King kind of way, but in an environmental catastrophe kind of way. And don’t forget to enter the Auralia’s Colors giveaway contest–entries will be accepted until Thursday night at midnight EST (GMT -4). I’m doing the latest litblog meme (HT Ted at bookeywookey) in honor of the book I got to read for work last night–the latest galley by one of my favorite…

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September Round Up–Top 5 Most Popular Posts

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It appears I didn’t read very much in September, at least not for pleasure. I read a ton for work, and that didn’t leave me much time for relaxing with a book in hand. My favorite reads this month were Auralia’s Colors (in case you haven’t guessed) and the biography of Shirley Jackson. The Top Five Most Popular Posts in September: As Madeleine Put It–a great loss. Contest! Win a Free Book!! Comfort Food (Booking Through Thursday) Eaten By the Monster of Mooch–seems to be…

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