I had the chance to interview Kathleen Kent, the author of The Heretic’s Daughter. You can read my review of her very good book here. Tell us a little about yourself: I grew up in Texas, attending the University of TX at Austin before moving to New York. I worked for over twenty years in [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
BBAW Interview: Suey from It’s All About Books
I had the pleasure of interviewing Suey from It’s All About Books as a BBAW event! She also interviewed me; you can read her interview of me on her site. How did you get into book blogging? How long have you been doing it? I started my blog after joining a Yahoo group connected with [...]
BBAW Giveaway: In the Land of Invisible Women, by Qanta Ahmed
Because it’s (almost) Book Bloggers Appreciation Week, and because I have a second copy, I’m pleased to announce that you can win this very excellent book. For free! My review, if you are interested, is in the latter half of this post. The rules are simple: 1) Leave me a comment on this post for [...]
Weekly Geeks 16: Book Interviews!
For this Weekly Geek, Kim from Sophisticated Dorkiness and I interviewed each other about books we had recently read. I asked her about All the Fishes Come Home to Roost, by Rachel Manija Brown, and she interviewed me about In the Land of Invisible Women, by Qanta Ahmed, MD. - - - - - - [...]
BTT: Format
I’m not interested in today’s actual BTT, so here’s one from last February! Groovy! All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or hardcovers? And why? All else being equal, I have to say that I generally prefer [...]
How to Get Rich Quick
I figure it must go something like this: Open a bookstore on campus. Wait until September. Get rich. Seriously — textbooks are a huge racket. Especially if you go to the campus bookstores (doom! doom!) Allow me a practical demonstration. Yesterday I went to two bookstores. The first: a used/bargain bookstore within walking distance of [...]
August Book Round-Up
I find these monthly book summaries simultaneously stimulating and dreadful. Stimulating because I like to see how many books I’ve read, and to look at how the month was shaped as a whole, at least as far as literature is concerned. I find them dreadful because the task falls to me of not only remembering [...]
Call for Guest Bloggers
Right. So. I’m going back to school on Monday, and that means a number of things. On the one hand, I’ll have more free time than I’ve had this summer, because I’ll be in classes for about fifteen hours per week, instead of at work for forty. On the other hand, I’ll have to be [...]