This challenge could be subtitled “a walk through my boyfriend’s bookcase.” My BF has an extensive graphic novel and comic book collection, and though I’ve dipped into it (Sandman. Bone, and Fables being my particular favorites), I’ve barely broken the surface of what’s there. So this challenge is a really great opportunity for me to […]
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It occurred to me that I’d left out a major part of my TBR list when I made my initial list of books for this challenge. My Amazon.com wishlist functions mostly as a TBR list for books that are actually located at my local library, and some of the books on that list have been
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I read Druids, the predecessor to this book, ages and ages ago, and I found myself wishing I’d reread it before reading this book. It wasn’t that this book was completely incomprehensible without having recently read Druids, but I felt like I was missing some of the flavor of the story, and why the characters
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With less than half a month remaining until 2008, and having now completed the last challenge I signed up for in 2007, I think it’s safe to post a list of the challenges I completed in 2007 so I archive them from my main page. I only started doing challenges in July, and managed to
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I’m done with the Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge! For the challenge, I read the following books: I’d made a point of picking books from different parts of the world (though the Sahara and Yemen are probably a bit too close, even if they are in different continents, but oh well.) I really enjoyed reading about
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Read for the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge This book is the companion to the Sahara travel series that Michael Palin filmed in 2001. I’ve seen the last half of the series, so I had a certain visual frame of reference for some of the book that I didn’t have for the rest. (Though there were
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I love a snow storm on a weekend. There’s something wonderful about being able to watch it snow and know that you don’t have to go out in it. I did some knitting, and some cleaning, and some nice relaxing with the Sunday paper. The boys (BF and D downstairs) took care of the 6ish
Do you use any of the online book-cataloguing sites, like Library Thing or Shelfari ? Why or why not? (Or . . . do you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking to?? (grin)) If not an online catalog, do you use any other method to catalog your book collection? Excel spreadsheets, index cards, a
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Read of the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge. This book follows the author’s journey westward from Shanghai along the old Silk Road. There are many interesting glimpses of Chinese and other minority cultures along the way. I’d not realized that the Chinese had long considered a trip along the Silk Road a form of exile. Xinjiang,
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ETA: View my final list here. Even though I can’t sign up until the 15th of December, I’ve decided to post my choices for the 2008 TBR Challenge, because it’s pretty easy to do. I already have a TBR list going (I’ll be moving it up the page a bit into my list of challenges),
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