Yes, it’s another meme — but this one involves LibraryThing, my favouritest website in the whole wide world, and so I could hardly exist resist. (I totally just typed “exist” instead of “resist” — but what the hey, I’m leaving it). My variation on the rules as laid out below is that I haven’t struck [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Weekly Geeks 1
So there’s this thing that Dewey is doing, called Weekly Geeks, and I can’t explain it very well, so just click here. Anyway, this week’s Weekly Geeks theme is Discover New Blogs Week! (I think the exclamation mark is mandatory). Here are five blogs I’ve discovered & enjoyed: Stuff as Dreams are Made On (Chris). [...]
Sunday Salon: Early Bird
Although I am posting now, in the afternoon, I got my Sunday Salon reading done earlier in the day. Much earlier, in fact. “Today”only in the most technical sense, actually. I got home late last night, you see, having been out with friends to take in a play. And when I got home, I saw [...]
From A to Z
I found this meme over on things mean a lot. I believe you’re supposed to list favourite books as well as favourite authors, but I haven’t done so because I’m difficult that way. Some days I just don’t know what to do with me. So my list is authors only, on the grounds that I [...]
Review: The Ovum Factor, by Marvin L. Zimmerman
Title: The Ovum Factor Author: Marvin L. Zimmerman Original Publication: 2008 This edition: 2008 ISBN: 9781933538990 / 1933538996 I was initially a little sceptical about this book. “Eco-thriller?” I thought (sceptically). But what the hey, it was free, and so I waited for my copy to arrive in the mail, received it, and eventually read [...]
My Dear, Inflated Sir
Ah, my first hate mail. This means that I’ve made it, right? Clearly the next step is to get fired. A few days ago I received the an email from an author wishing me to review his book. The subject line was “FW: Query Letter” and the email began “Dear Editor,” and went on in [...]
BTT: Spring
Do your reading habits change in the Spring? Do you read gardening books? Even if you don’t have a garden? More light fiction than during the Winter? Less? Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack? Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring as you do [...]
The Belligerent Reader
I’ve recently come to realize something about myself: At least some of the time, I am a belligerent reader. What I mean is this: when someone talks a book up to me, and then gives it to me to read (or I find it on my own on account of their recommendation), I tend to [...]