Egad, I’ve been tagged. First, here are some six things: Six Random Things About Myself: 1. You know how people can roll their tongues? I can do that. I can also roll my tongue upside-down (like an inverted ‘u’). What you have to do is brace the sides of your tongue against your bottom teeth, [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2008’
Weekly Geek 5: Storytelling
Giveaway is still open until June 3 . . . This week’s Weekly Geek has to do with other forms of storytelling — stories outside of books, that is. I’ve chosen oral storytelling. In my family, we have a history of oral storytelling. When my brothers and I were young, we’d get read a story [...]
BTT: What is Reading?
Hi, BTTers! Don’t forget to check out my giveaway while you’re here. This week’s question: What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which of these is reading these days? Are they all reading? Only some of them? What are your personal qualifications for something to be “reading” — why? If [...]
Giveaway of Awesomesauce
Contest is now closed; winners will be announced on June 5. I was going to wait until my hundredth post to do this, because 100 is one of those big round numbers, but in the end I couldn’t wait. Instead, I am celebrating my 62nd post. Not coincidentally, it is this one. Behold, therefore, the [...]
BTT: Books and Movies
Books and films both tell stories, but what we want from a book can be different from what we want from a movie. Is this true for you? If so, what’s the difference between a book and a movie? What’s the “difference” between a book and a movie? Well, you see, Billy, one of them [...]
Sunday Salon: Remembering Whodunits
I seem to have missed doing Sunday Salon for a few weeks. Somewhere Sundays got busy, or at least got filled with things which were not reading. But I’m back. Hi, Saloners! This week I’ve been reading Dorothy L. Sayers‘s wonderful Gaudy Night. Sayers was a mystery writer, Christian thinker, translator, playwright, and general all-around [...]
New Arrivals
I went on another bookstore outing today, this time to the excellent discount bookstore. I got three new books: 1) Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto. Her name is Banana. How cool is that? I have no idea if it’s her real name or a pseudonym, or a half-pseudonym… but still. Banana. (If you must know, I [...]
BTT: And Again
Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not? Do you ever read manuals? How-to books? Self-help guides? Anything at all? First of all, let me just say that I rarely bring home any “gadget” more complicated than a book. I have no cell phone, [...]