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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 ************************************* 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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