Category: books and reading

Quick notes before I start Read-a-Thon

My tea is steeping, and as soon as I get my breakfast ready, I’m going to start reading King Dork by Frank Portman. I am slightly bummed because I forgot my poetry anthology, The Art of Losing, at work yesterday, so won’t be reading any of that one today. 🙁…

RAH RAH READ-A-THON!

This Saturday, April 10, is the 24 Hour Read-a-Thon, a very popular event in the book blogging community. I realize I’m not technically a book blogger, but I’ve learned some names, I read some of the blogs, I follow a handful of bloggers on Twitter, and if people want to…

Reading notes: My growing list of unfinished books

As you might recall, I struggled to get through Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. I’d put it aside to read a book for another commitment, I’d read parts in paperback and some of it on my iPod, I was up and down with it for weeks — and when I finally finished…

FreeVerse: “Small Bodies” by Mary Oliver

So often, I think about participating in FreeVerse, a weekly meme hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! on Wednesdays. And so often, Wednesday sneaks up on me and I think, “Darn it, it’s already Wednesday again and I don’t have a poem to post for FreeVerse!” Today, I brought one of…

I FINISHED IT! — and other notes on recent reading

What a difference a day can make. I wrote the title of this blog post YESTERDAY around 5pm. It’s now Sunday, getting close to 930pm, and this post will need to be much shorter than I originally planned. But, I’m okay with that. I just want to get it written…

Feeling better, thanks to book bargains!

Today at work, I was feeling kind of blue. Parts of my day were somewhat productive, but I also had a difficult request, took quite a while to find a library that owned the right volume of the journal, one that also would hopefully not charge us an arm and…

Some thoughts on reading, on my son’s birthday

Today is Valentine’s Day, and also my son Kyle’s 10th birthday. Jeff and I have been parents for a whole decade. This is too frightening to contemplate for too long, so I’ll quickly move on from there… But anyway, Kyle had three friends over last evening, and two of them…

Joining two more Reading Challenges for 2010

There is never never never enough time for me to get all my stuff together. I started a post LAST Friday about a reading challenge I’d decided to join, and here it is, Friday again, and I figured I should just start over, and talk (briefly) about BOTH of the…