Wow. This is a great book. It’s set in the not too distant future, and has some interesting ideas about how society may respond in the face of our increasing technological advances. It’s an incredibly layered book, and I’m still trying to decide exactly how I feel about it. The main character in this book […]
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This was the first year I actually kept track of the books I’d read. I started pre-blog, so while there is a write up for every book, they’re not all online. It was definitely interesting to get a number on what I read. I suspect I’m capable of reading more, as I know I had
It’s official! I’m challenge-sign up happy. Actually, this challenge is a great fit for me. It’s my favorite genre, there are several books I’m already planning on reading that qualify, and there are even more books I have in my library TBR list I wasn’t yet planning on reading for anything in particular, but that
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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
Sahara – Michael Palin Read More »
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