Every once in a while I like to take a look at the search terms people are using to get to this site. As usual, they are full of wackitude. Please enjoy some recent search terms, with brief commentary appended.
benazir bhutto in swiming pool haha, what? Some kink I don’t know about?
boy rotating He must [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
Search Terms: You Delight Me
Review: My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Taylor
Have you ever had one of those books that sat on your wishlist for so long that, when you finally got a copy, you couldn’t remember why it was on your wishlist in the first place? And then, when you started reading, you really couldn’t imagine why you wanted it, because it was just [...]
BTT: Book Storage
This week’s question: How do you arrange your books on your shelves? Is it by author, by genre, or you just put it where it falls on?
How very appropriate as a question for me! I am smack in the middle of reorganizing all of my bookshelves, which previously fell under the “wherever it fits” system, [...]
Book Reorganization: The Purge
It’s reading week, and since I have some time for things like basic living-space maintenance, I’m starting to do a long-desired book purge. I have four book cases in my room and they are full and overflowing onto my desk, the floor, and other flat surfaces; and recently receiving a gift card for a bookstore [...]
Why I Love Second-Hand Books
Recently I was given a thank-you note for a service I’d performed for my choir, and inside that note was a gift card for Chapters of some certain value. When I thanked T, the purchaser, she said this:
Now you don’t have to go to the used bookstores. You can buy new books, that look nice [...]
BTT: Authors Talking
Do you read any author’s blogs? If so, are you looking for information on their next project? On the author personally? Something else?
I read a handful of authors’ blogs, but usually the fact that they’re authors is only incidental to the fact that they are interesting, funny people who write well. Authors have the same [...]
The Gentle Art of the Apostrophe
Many of you will have already seen a report [yahoo news] that the city of Birmingham in the UK has officially dropped the apostrophe from public signage on the grounds that it is “old fashioned” and “confusing”. My favourite part of this whole debacle (“favourite” being, of course, a relative term) is the following quotation [...]
