From the monthly archives:

November 2008

The Sunday Salon – Currently Reading: Book of Lies, Casting Spells and The Fire

November 30, 2008 Books and Reading

I am currently reading a fun stash of books right now, and the only reason why I haven’t finished any of them is because I haven’t had a good block of time to do so. I keep my “currently reading” books in different rooms of the house, and tend to just pick up whatever book [...]

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Page 56, Sentence 5 – Tagged!

November 29, 2008 Books and Reading

I’ve been tagged by my friend Ann-Kat over at Today I Read (who has just about the most beautiful blog I’ve ever seen).
Here are the instructions:

Open the closest book to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment, and turn to page 56.
Write out the fifth [...]

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Some Twitter/post glitches …

November 28, 2008 Blogging and Blog Events

To all my feed subscribers, huge apologies! I had accidentally set my twitter plugin to actually blog each tweet as a blog post – not at all what I wanted (I meant it to be the other way around). All is fixed now, no worries, and the “tweet” posts have now been deleted.
And if you’re [...]

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Friday Finds

November 28, 2008 Books and Reading

I ended up with a huge list this week, so in this week’s Friday Finds post I’m paring the list down to my absolute “I must get my hands on this” list:
When Wanderers Cease to Roam, by Vivian Swift:
I found When Wanderers Cease to Roam through this review at Bermudaonion.
Synopsis from Amazon: “Filled with watercolors [...]

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Review: The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith

November 27, 2008 Books and Reading

What This Book is About:
“In this fabulous new installment in the bestselling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Our ever-curious moral philosopher finds her interest piqued. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a [...]

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Support Your Local Library Challenge

November 26, 2008 Books and Reading

Another reading challenge for 2009! J. Kaye’s Support Your Local Library Challenge lets you set three different goal levels: 12, 25 or 50. Since 2009 will be my first full year of participating in challenges, I’m going to go all out and aim for that 50!
I will be updating this post with titles of books [...]

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100+ Reading Challenge 2009

November 26, 2008 Books and Reading

Adding to my list of reading challenges (I can’t believe there are so many!), I’ll be doing J. Kaye’s 100+ Reading Challenge in 2009, too.
I’ll be using this post to keep track of my numbers, listing books read as I read them. It seems like the most efficient way of doing things!
1. Airhead, by Meg [...]

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Read Your Own Books Challenge 2009

November 25, 2008 Books and Reading

I’ve joined the Read Your Own Books Challenge 2009. This will be a good one for me, as I have several books that I own and haven’t gotten round to reading yet. (Several is not a good word for it. Something like “bajillions” is probably better. Think non-quantifiable and you’ve just about got it.)
The rules [...]

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Review: Death Perception, by Victoria Laurie

November 25, 2008 Books and Reading

Synopsis
The Gamble of a Lifetime
It took a while for Abby’s FBI agent boyfriend, Dutch Rivers, to accept her psychic gifts as the real deal. But these days he knows better than to question Abby’s visions. So when his cousin Chase is kidnapped after a bloody shoot-out in a Vegas alleyway, he agrees that her clairvoyant [...]

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Tuesday Thingers: LibraryThing Blog Widgets

November 25, 2008 Books and Reading

learned something new with today’s Tuesday Thingers: LibraryThing has blog widgets! I went in and played around with all of the variations, and decided that I liked the book cover mosaic the best. I’ve set it to recent books, which means I will have to get used to entering my books into LibraryThing more [...]

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