Graffiti recently spotted around town: 1: GROWN MEN EAT APPLE SAUCE! CAHOOTS! 2: BATMAN IS YOUR WEATHER MAN 3: read more cake Giveaways recently spotted around the interweb: 1: Trish of Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’? is giving away a copy of Did I Expect Angels? by Kathryn Maughan. You can enter be clicking here and [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
Meme: 100 Books
Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.) 1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) 2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) 3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) 4. Gone With [...]
BTT: Playing Editor
How about a chance to play editor-in-chief? Fill in the blanks: __________ would have been a much better book if _________________. – BTT. I think that the last couple of Harry Potter books would have been much better if J. K. Rowling had allowed an editor to pare them down significantly. This would apply to, [...]
Review: Swimming Pool Sunday, by Madeleine Wickham
Title: Swimming Pool Sunday Author: Madeleine Wickham, aka Sophie Kinsella (S.K. being the pseudonym) ISBN: 0552996424 First published: 1997 This edition: 1997 This little gem is Madeleine Wickham’s third novel, written before she started writing as Sophie Kinsella. I had previously read her debut novel, The Tennis Party, which was a little weak. Swimming Pool [...]
Dewey Drive ’08!
The Dewey Donation System was set up as a book drive in 2003 to raise money for the Oakland Public Library System, which had lost most of its funding and desperately needed both money and books. Over 700 books, CDs, and videos were donated. In 2004, the drive helped the San Diego Public Library, which [...]
100+ Reading Challenge!
Ooh, a reading challenge! The idea here is to read (at least) one hundred books in the period of one year. I’m game! Want to join? Click the picture for more information. You can also keep track of how I’m doing here. I’ve started writing down all of the books I’ve read as of the [...]
Something’s Missing
I went to my local public library today, a place I hadn’t been for probably seven years. That sounds a little strange, maybe, but it makes sense. In highschool I would generally just use the school library, and now in university — well, if you can’t find it in the university catalogue, you’ll have a [...]
Review: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Author: R. L. Stevenson ISBN: 055321277X First published: 1886 This edition: 1985 I have finally read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I don’t mean “finally” in the sense that I have been pining to read this book. Rather, this short novel was a huge cultural phenomenon in its time [...]