When I was a wee bairn in French Immersion, we learned the following song for Hallowe’en:
“C’est L’Halloween”
C’est l’halloween! Hey!
C’est l’halloween! Hey!
C’est l’halloween! Hey!
C’est l’halloween!
These are the types of stories of which our lives are made.
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Apropos of Nothing
BTT: Conditioning
Are you a spine breaker? Or a dog-earer? Do you expect to keep your books in pristine condition even after you have read them? Does watching other readers bend the cover all the way round make you flinch or squeal in pain?
I try not to break the spines of the books I read … but [...]
Hello, hello
Still alive; still reading. School is rather busy. Regular posting might resume in a week or two.
In the mean time, anybody here know Episode 9 of Ulysses (“Scylla & Charybdis”) really well? Because I have an essay and a presentation due for tomorrow …. email me!
For the rest of you, here is a Jackson Pollack [...]
Shelf-Awareness Reading Questionnaire
Hooray for pointless navel-gazing!
On your nightstand now:
This must be divided into categories, actually. There are too many.
Current & upcoming for school: Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf; Ulysses, by James Joyce; Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe; Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih.
Purchased today: Jpod, by Douglas Coupland; The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, by [...]
How to Purge Books
A recent BTT question had to do with the books we all have sitting around on our shelves, unread. Many of these books are probably not new arrivals in the TBR pile, but have been on those shelves for months or years, perhaps through moves or reorganizations. Chances are some of them will never be [...]
Guest Post: Lean on Me
Guest post! Because I am flitting about town doing secret surprise date things. You know how it is.
This post was written by the ever-helpful Lisa Roe, whom I met through her capacities as the Online Book Publicist. She lives in Wisconsin, writes guest posts, and likes to send excellent books to people. You can [...]
Some Small Notes
1. Congratulations to Kim who, with help from random.org, has won a copy of In the Land of Invisible Women. It will ship shortly.
2. Have you ever considered taking (free) online courses? Here are 100 to choose from.
3. Fun with etymology!
4. Odd instruments. Hooray.
5. I will not be participating in this weekend’s Read-a-thon because I [...]
BTT: Patience (and Blog Action Day)
BTT
What tomes are waiting patiently on your shelves?
Oh, sheesh, there are tonnes of them. I’ve got a lot of classics sitting around — some which were given to me, and some which I bought for myself, sometimes accidentally. (Note to undergrads: don’t ever buy books until your prof has given you a final syllabus. Because [...]
