Apparently a bunch of folks don’t believe it’s possible that anyone might read over 100 books a year. I’ve read many such dismissive, eye-rolling comments lately. They annoy me. Let’s
Category: Books
This world is ruining my reading
I’m so tired lately. A lot of people have been saying they’re tired. It’s hard to get up every day and read about what horrible new thing has made “normal”
Books 2014
I just realized I never did a books post for 2014! Ah well, better late than never. Goodreads did this nice summary for me (click through the graphic for a
Yep, that’s an accomplishment
I just got back home after being on the road for three weeks. I was in Jordan in the Syrian refugee camps, the United Nations, I was signing books in
Books! 2013
Books! According to Goodreads, on which I track the majority of what I read, I read 114 books (give or take) in 2013. This year I diverted more time into
2012 books retrospective: Goodreads
Around April last year I thought it might be interesting to join one of the more interest-based forums out there since it’s a mode that’s really taking off. The cooking
Yup
Dear publishers: No.
At dinner the other night a number of people were surprised to hear of the absurd phenomenon of digital (and DRM’d to boot) books being more expensive than print versions
In Which I Read Stuff on Fancy Modern Devices: Fiction
So, yes, I caved in and asked for a Kindle for my belated birthday. Before this I read the first Book of Thrones volume on D’s Kindle, to see if
In Which I Read Stuff: Fiction
While I love them, physical books have a few practical issues for me at the moment. One, it’s trivially out of my way to pick them up at the library.
Honest, if not quiet
M: I have a new book for school — Anne of Green Gables. Me: Oh, that’s a good one. I like that book. M: That girl talks way too much.
In Which I Read Stuff: Nonfiction
I had the feeling I wasn’t actually reading much nonfiction lately, but looking at the piles on my floor and the history of my library borrowings that isn’t actually true.
In Which I Read Stuff: Kids’ Books
A while ago I was chatting with someone about books and bookstores and all that sort of thing and the question was asked: so, what do I read? I answered
Drive: A road trip through our complicated affair with the automobile
Drive: A road trip through our complicated affair with the automobile by Tim Falconer Falconer talks about the history of automobiles, Detroit then and now, car culture, the quirks of
Collins English Dictionary assesses caducity of 24 words
These are great words! It would be a shame to lose them, even if they are obscure. Abstergent: Cleansing Agrestic: Rural Apodeictic: Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration Caducity: Perishableness
10 Books Not To Read Before You Die
7: À la Recherche du Temps Perdu – Marcel Proust Yes, yes, he tasted a biscuit that made him think of childhood, we’ve all done that. If I want to
Books that changed things
Mighty Girl’s blog post Eight Books That Changed Things For Me got me thinking. Thinking, really, less about what books have changed things for me than whether it was far
Book: The Ghost Map
I just listened to the unabridged audiobook of Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map: The story of London’s most terrifying epidemic, and how it changed cities, science and the modern world.
Can’t get much shorter than that without LOLspeak
LIT 101 CLASS IN THREE LINES OR LESS. 1984 WINSTON: Don’t tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism. EVERYONE: Surprise! We’re the Party. WINSTON: Oh, rats. They’re
Book a Month Challenge #5: Mother
(http://bamchallenge.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/challenge-5-mother) I cheerfully tossed Andrea Buchanan’s Mother shock : loving every (other) minute of it and (perhaps less cheerfully) Susan Wicklund’s This common secret : my journey as an abortion