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The Books-Lying-Around-Open Syndrome

April 9, 2010 Books and Reading

I’ve always cheerfully owned up to being one who bookmarks by dog-earring books.
But the other day, I realized something.
I usually only dog-ear novels. It’s a totally different story when it comes to nonfiction.
I was coming downstairs, groggily in search of my morning coffee, when I noticed I’d left a book I was reading on the [...]

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Audiobook Appreciation

January 11, 2010 Books and Reading

I’m done with this most recent clump of deadlines! I don’t think I’ve worked at quite a pace like this for a long while – it’s been three to four weeks of fourteen hour days. I am very, very thankful for my audiobooks – I think they kept me sane in the midst of all [...]

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A Parisian Holiday: French Milk, by Lucy Knisley

December 14, 2009 Books and Reading

I moved on from reading Eye of the Crow to something completely different: French Milk, by Lucy Knisley is a memoir, written in graphic novel format, of a month-long holiday the author took with her mother in Paris, France.
I came across this novel when I was reading around the blogosphere (when I do this kind [...]

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Incoming! The Memoirs Edition

October 7, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a regular feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles some of the recent new book arrivals at the Ms. Bookish household. This edition: memoirs!

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Reading: The Opposite of Fate, by Amy Tan

August 29, 2009 Books and Reading

I am in the midst of getting the house tidied up, as we’re having friends over for dinner tonight – I love the end result of this process of cleaning and tidying, because it means not only a nice clean space in which to entertain, but also a nice clean house for at least a [...]

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Rereading: I, Asimov: A Memoir, by Isaac Asimov

August 6, 2009 Books and Reading

Yesterday, after reading this review of The God Themselves by Isaac Asimov at Rhapsodyinbooks, I succumbed to a very insistent urge to dig out my copy of I, Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s memoir.
I didn’t actually have to dig it out. I have a bookshelf devoted to favorite authors’ autobiographies. So it was really easy to give [...]

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Incoming! Audition, by Barbara Walters

May 20, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles new books that have arrived in the Ms. Bookish household. Here’s the latest new arrival:
Audition, by Barbara Walters
About the Book:
Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, has had an amazingly full life. In the bestselling Audition, she describes her extraordinary public [...]

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Review: Up Till Now, by William Shatner

May 18, 2009 Books and Reading

Usually when I finish reading a memoir or an autobiography, I come away with a sense of connection of sorts with the author, a feeling that I’ve shared in some of the personal details of his or her life. This wasn’t quite the feeling I got with Up Till Now, William Shatner’s autobiography; however, the [...]

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This Week’s Library Loot

May 6, 2009 Books and Reading

I didn’t get a chance to visit the library last week but fortunately (I think) they keep holds for four days and I managed to squeak in at the last minute and pick up another batch of books.
Then the phone rang with another automated message …
So here’s this week’s library loot:
Mystery: The Language of Bees, [...]

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Mailbox Monday – May 4

May 4, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s Mailbox Monday, when book bloggers talk about the book titles that came to their house that week. Here’s what arrived in the Ms. Bookish household:
Mystery: Long Time No See, by Susan Isaacs. Via Bookmooch. Judith Singer (last seen in Isaacs’ Compromising Positions) is back, this time to investigate the death of Courtney Logan, former [...]

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More Library Decadence

April 22, 2009 Books and Reading

After my recent Library Loot post, I really didn’t think I could have that many more hold requests at the library coming in. I haven’t had a chance to read ANY of the books from that batch, with the exception of an audiobook, a BBC Radio Production of Agatha Christie’s The Caribbean Mystery (it helped [...]

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An Embarrassment of Library Riches

April 17, 2009 Books and Reading

It must be some sort of Murphy’s Law applicable to bibliophiles, I think. Work-wise it’s been quiet around here, which is why I’ve been able to keep up with all my reading even through all the renovations around here, instead of being stuck at my desk pounding on deadline after deadline. I always have a [...]

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Found Treasures From My Book Stash

January 27, 2009 Books and Reading

This year my husband and I seem to be in a major de-cluttering mode; one result is that I have been going through my books trying to figure out which ones to add to Bookmooch, which ones I should give away and which ones I really want to keep.
And so of course, I’ve been [...]

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Mailbox Monday – A Big List

January 26, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s Mailbox Monday again – this is where I get the chance to list all the books that came into the house this past week.
This past week, I more or less made up for the the sparse new arrivals a few Mondays ago
I made the mistake of ambling over to Chapters.ca to buy a few [...]

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Mailbox Mondays: Cats, cats, cats

January 12, 2009 Books and Reading

I’ve already spotted quite a few Mailbox Monday posts in my feed reader – it occurs to me I’m always running a bit later than everyone else when it comes to posting. Actually, it occurs to me that most book bloggers have a TON of energy and I’m not sure how they do it!
I seem [...]

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From the Stacks Reading Challenge

November 9, 2008 Books and Reading

It’s time for some fun! I just discovered the From the Stacks Reading Challenge. The rules are pretty simple: pick five books from your to-be-read pile – meaning, books you already have – and read them all between November 1 and January 30.
I have a massive TBR pile, and this morning I had a ton [...]

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