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[TSS] Reducing My Stacks of Books: Ideas Needed

February 7, 2010 Books and Reading

One of the things my husband and I have been planning is downsizing our home once our daughter is in university next year; when that happens, it will be just my husband and I, and our six-year-old, and our current house is really too big for just the three of us.
So we’ve decided to use [...]

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Saturday Randomness: Halloween, NaNoWriMo, Twitter, Food and Comments

October 31, 2009 Books and Reading

Happy Halloween to everyone who celebrates Halloween! It looks very windy outside my office window right now – hopefully the wind will die down before all the trick-or-treaters hit the sidewalks tonight.
I’m feeling a little random today (have you noticed I get this way at least once a week?) So I thought I’d throw all [...]

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Getting Organized: Keeping Track of Links and Book Recommendations

October 28, 2009 Books and Reading

I’ve always been envious of bloggers who seem to so easily keep track of who recommended a book they’ve just read and reviewed. At one point, I was using the Zotero plugin for Firefox to keep track of blog posts that introduced me to books which were added to my TBR, but eventually I had [...]

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Some Saturday Ramblings

October 17, 2009 Books and Reading

It feels like a “lost” week around here in a way. Monday was a holiday here (not that it matters much to me work-wise since I work when I have a deadline and take time off when I don’t, but there’s the not-minor matter of not having to get up with the kids in the [...]

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My Favorite Book Hooks

October 5, 2009 Books and Reading

Word Lily recently had a post about the things that make her want to pick up that book – “book hooks”. Coming up with a list sounded like such fun, so I thought I’d give it a try, too.
Off the top of my head, here are 20 things that will make me pick up a [...]

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Saturday Thoughts

October 3, 2009 Books and Reading

I haven’t done a Saturday “this is what’s going on with me” post for ages, so I figured it was about time. And after this week, I actually might be posting something like this regularly on Saturday – because starting next Saturday, I’ll have more time.
The Big List of Book Giveaways
Why will I have more [...]

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Allergies, Lots of Reading, and Finishing a DNF

September 28, 2009 Books and Reading

After looking forward to The Word on the Street all week, we all ended up missing the entire event. On Saturday, with the colder weather and the rain, allergies began hitting us – not the tiny-sniffle type of allergies, but full blown sinus-pressure, drippy nose (you wanted to hear that one, didn’t you?), cough [...]

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The Me-and-My-Books Relationship

September 22, 2009 Books and Reading

Molly at My Cozy Book Nook has a great post about why she writes in books. I myself don’t tend to mark-up books as I’m reading them, but it’s not because I feel any sort of taboo about writing in a book; I just never think about doing it.
One interesting result of participating in the [...]

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Living at the Library

August 26, 2009 Books and Reading

I just got back from a morning at the library, and enjoyed myself so thoroughly, I’m wondering why I don’t do this more often.
Actually, this time was a first for me. I’m a very efficient user of my library’s hold system, so normally I just dash in to grab a new book on hold, and [...]

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Learning to Read

August 7, 2009 Books and Reading

Do you remember learning to read?
My own experience was a very special one. In order to share it with you, I will have to take you back to my own beginnings.
I was born in Pasadena, California, to an actress mother and an actor father. They were both Asian, and Hollywood wasn’t exactly filled with choice [...]

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“Blended” Genres: Do You Like Them, or Hate Them?

August 5, 2009 Books and Reading

Every now and then, I come across a blog post that asks, is there a genre you never read?
I used to say “historical fiction”; hesitatingly, of course, because in the back of my mind I know that “never” is too strong a word and I don’t know what might come my way in this genre [...]

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So, Where Did I Get The Last 20 Books I Reviewed?

August 3, 2009 Books and Reading

I wasn’t going to blog about this, because out of all the book and lit blogs I follow in my feedreader, I’ve never thought any of them reviewed a book more positively simply because it was an ARC or a review copy.
Let’s Do Some Math
Honestly, the amount of time it takes to read a book, [...]

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Are You a Re-Reader?

July 24, 2009 Books and Reading

I’ve been thinking about this lately – the fact that I’m a re-reader, I mean.
It used to make sense, back before I began blogging about what I read, and discovering other bloggers doing the same thing. Back then, I actually went through periods during which I ran out of books in my TBR.
Yes. It’s true. [...]

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The “Write” Priority

July 16, 2009 Writing

Today’s word count: 2,266 words
NANTUCKET total word count: 67,407 words
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Please excuse the pun. I couldn’t help myself.
Today is Day 3 of my latest writing goal, which is to make my writing a priority. While my daily word count goal of 2,000 words has been a huge personal success, in that it’s gotten me back into [...]

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What’s Up Sunday – June 14

June 14, 2009 Books and Reading

I normally post this as “What’s Up Saturday”, but yesterday kind of flew by really quickly, especially since I was behind on the big giveaways post.
Deadline Alley
I’m heading into Deadline Alley over the next ten days – I have five deadlines to lay to rest and I’d like to get everything finished by next Wednesday. [...]

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Blog Overload! (or, How Do You Keep On Top of Your Blog Reading?)

June 11, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s finally hit me. Blog overload, I mean. I spent all day yesterday trying to catch up on comments, and I don’t feel like I’ve made a dent at all in all the blog posts still to be read.
(The state of my Google Reader is beginning to eerily feel like an online version of my [...]

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Netbook Equals Ebook Reader (Sort Of)

June 9, 2009 Books and Reading

I am incredibly thrilled with my netbook right now – I’m sure if anyone took a look at me, all they’d see would be streams of bookish glee floating all around me.
The other day, I decided to see if I could easily set my netbook’s screen to portrait orientation. It had occurred to me [...]

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Audiobook Magic: 7 Reasons Why You Should Listen to Your Next Read

June 2, 2009 Books and Reading

One of the things that has really amazed me is how I have so suddenly become an audiobook convert. Last year at this time, I wouldn’t have even considered listening to a book in audio, unabridged or not (but please don’t get me started on abridged versions – I have only one word for them, [...]

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What’s Up Saturday – May 30

May 30, 2009 Books and Reading

What a wonderful and interesting week it’s been. Here’s what’s been going on:
My First Twitter Party

I went to my very first Twitter party last night – BEAtwittyparty, hosted by The Book Lady’s Blog. And I have to say, it was absolutely wild. I mean, really, truly wild – if you followed the party using the [...]

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Feeling Twitter-ific, Thanks to My Netbook & Seesmic Desktop

May 25, 2009 Books and Reading

Update: spelled Seesmic wrong! Typo has been changed. In title too. Sigh
I think I’m finally getting the hang of Twitter! It’s really due to two things: I picked up my ASUS EEE PC 1000HE on Saturday (do I love it? do I LOVE it!), and I downloaded Seesmic Desktop, a desktop Twitter application, and have [...]

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What’s Up Saturday – May 23

May 23, 2009 Books and Reading

What a week it’s been! I finished up one deadline earlier in the week only to realize I’d made a mistake about the due date for another one – and it was due that very day! Luckily the editor gave me an extension, and I’d already put some work into the project (before putting it [...]

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What’s Up Saturday: April 25, 2009

April 25, 2009 Books and Reading

Saturday seems like a perfect day for doing a “What’s up around here” post, and today it’s even more perfect, given that it’s 27 ºC (80.6 ºF) and just gorgeous outside. Well, it would be perfect, except that I’m working on the third deadline of the week, which must be completed for tomorrow.
But there’s nothing [...]

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I’m a Zombie Chicken!

April 24, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

I’ve been wanting to say that for over 24 hours now. I discovered late on Wednesday night that Cathy at Kittling Books had awarded me this wonderful little blog award, as well as the 2009 Friendly Blogger Award, and I was very excited.
I mean, how many times do I ever get to say, I’m [...]

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Letting Go …

April 21, 2009 Books and Reading

Yesterday my husband cleared out a small room we’ve been using for storage – we’ve decided to turn it into a mini-fitness room. The treadmill and exercise bike fit in there perfectly, and we’ll mount a couple of those portable DVD players to the wall so that we can watch movies while we exercise (or [...]

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Audiobook Love

February 3, 2009 Books and Reading

I never expected it to happen – but it did. I thought we weren’t really compatible – but incredibly, we are.
Isn’t that the thing with falling in love, though? So unexpected.
It all started innocently enough. I’m a freelancer in the publishing industry; basically, I read books for a living. I’m quite happy about that. The [...]

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Thoughts on Book Reviewing, and New Rating System

February 2, 2009 Books and Reading

Recently, I’ve been thinking a bit about the blogging that I do here at MsBookish. I enjoy the book blog world very much, and have met some wonderful book bloggers in the short time I’ve been blogging here.
But I’ve been asking myself: what is it that I want to do here? And okay, I’ll [...]

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Surfing Saturday: Free reads and other stuff

January 17, 2009 Books and Reading

Found some interesting links this week, so I thought I’d compile it all into one leisurely Saturday post, in case anyone is on the lookout for some weekend surfing fun. To make things easier, all the links in this post open up in a separate window (or tab, if you’re like me and go crazy [...]

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I’m Back, and Raring to … Read!

January 8, 2009 Books and Reading

We made it back from Disney World more or less still sane (and since we were packing two teens and a five year old with us, I assume you all know how huge an accomplishment this is) – we had a fabulous time. Disney was crazy busy over most of last week, but in the [...]

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Happy Holidays Everyone!

December 23, 2008 Books and Reading

It’s been a hectic time around here – as evidenced by my lack of posts! I’m scurrying to finish off a couple more deadlines, not just because of Christmas, but also because I’m headed off to Disney World at the end of this month; my family and I will be welcoming in the new year [...]

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BTT: Generosity

December 18, 2008 Books and Reading

This week’s Booking Through Thursday question:
Do you give books as gifts?
To everyone? Or only to select people?
How do you feel about receiving books as gifts?
I have always given books as gifts; one of my first thoughts when thinking about a gift is whether I can match a book to the person. Not always the easiest [...]

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