Hello, all. School is getting a bit crazy-like. Posting will be light until it settles down a bit. In the meantime, The Book Thief: Best book ever?
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Guest Post: On Writing
Guest post! Everyone, meet Anna. Anna, meet everyone. You can read Anna’s regular thoughts on reading, writing, and knitting on her blog, Diary of an Eccentric. I’ve been a writer since I learned to string a few words together to form a sentence. I remember clearly that the first poem I wrote was about cats, [...]
Quick Giveaway Reminder
My second copy of In the Land of Invisible Women hasn’t yet come in the mail, and so the draw to receive it remains open. My review of the book is here. The giveaway post is here. Happy Thursday.
Wednesday Quickies
Review: Genuine Men, by Nancy Bruno. Genuine Men is a photo-essay collection about — can you guess? — men. While I’m not personally sure what makes a man (or a woman, for that matter) “genuine” or not, in terms of degrees of manhood, Nancy Bruno has certainly presented a wide range of men from which [...]
Getting Rich Quick (a follow-up)
After much stomping around and desk-clearing, I’ve finally tracked down all of my receipts in order to see exactly how much I’ve spent on textbooks this year. There’s a lot to keep track of; since writing this initial post, I visited three more bookstores as well as the original ones another two or three times. [...]
Recent Links
Here are some good things I’ve noticed lately: Taking Children’s Lit Seriously at The Education of Oronte Churm. 25 Reasons to Read at Across the Page. Beautiful pictures of impossibly tiny things at the Wellcome Image Awards 2008. Check out this ribosome. Western Spaghetti by PES on YouTube. Rich English Guy and his Trebuchet, also [...]
BTT: Autumn
Autumn is starting (here in the US, anyway), and kids are heading back to school–does the changing season change your reading habits? Less time? More? Are you just in the mood for different kinds of books than you were over the summer? Fall is also starting to appear here in Canada (I know, it’s not [...]
Review: The Heretic’s Daughter, by Kathleen Kent
The first thing I noticed about The Heretic’s Daughter when I opened the package it came in was that I had been sent a large-print edition. Seriously, the print is huge — I just measured some capital letters and they’re fully 4 mm tall. And it was a bit strange to be reading print that [...]