Well . . . I did not get that much reading done this Sunday. I was up late on Saturday (sang a performance of the last two thirds of the Messiah — and then the conductor offered to buy the first round and so we all went out) and so on Sunday I was a [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
Eco-Libris
Edit: Ooh, controversy! Quite a bit of discussion is happening in the comments. They’re worth a read. Here is the original post proper:
I was reading the Phenix & Phenix blog and, some ways down the page, I found a very interesting interview held with Raz Godelnik, the founder of Eco-Libris. I had never heard [...]
BTT: The Cover
This week’s question comes from Julie, who asks:
While acknowledging that we can’t judge books by their covers, how much does the design of a book affect your reading enjoyment? Hardcover vs. softcover? Trade paperback vs. mass market paperback? Font? Illustrations? Etc.?
Who says we can’t judge books by their covers? How else do we choose books [...]
The Whole Book Experience
I’ve been pondering something lately, something vague about books and e-books and libraries and hardcovers and paperbacks… and something I like to call the Whole Book Experience. I wrote a little about this before, and it’s still weighing on my mind a bit. I think it’s important.
Here are some things that I think are important [...]
Sunday Salon: Four Letter Word
Title: Four Letter Word
Editors: Joshua Knelman & Rosalind Porter
ISBN: 9780307396761
First published: Feb 2008
This edition: Feb 2008
P. came to church with us this morning, and he brought me two books he’d bought for me last week. It was entirely a surprise; P. is not much of a reader (dyslexia) and finds me hard to buy for [...]
Links of the Whenever
Match It for Pratchett. A few months ago, Terry Pratchett announced that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He also announced that — given that Alzheimer’s is a very common disease but only gets 3% of the research money that cancer does — he has donated half a million pounds (about $1 million USD) [...]
Review: Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
Title: Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
Author: Mabel Armstrong
ISBN: 0972892958
First published: 2008
This edition: 2008 (ARC)
This is another ARC I’ve managed to snag from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program. This moderately-sized book has a hideous, hideous cover—but, I think, excellent contents.
This is actually the first book in a planned “Discovering Women in Science” series by Armstrong, who [...]
BTT: The End
You’ve just reached the end of a book . . . what do you do now? Savor and muse over the book? Dive right into the next one? Go take the dog for a walk, the kids to the park, before even thinking about the next book you’re going to read? What?
(Obviously, there can be [...]
