Archive: Books category
I'd forgotten that when you blog every day, there are lots of days when you don't know what on earth you're going to blog about. :) But luckily I have a list of post topics to draw from.
So, nonfiction is fiction, sort of. A nonfiction work can be ...
Has it really been four days since I last blogged? Goodness. Some people can blog once a week or once a month, and that's great for them, but I can't do that. And these gaps between posts -- it's been a few months now since I slowed ...
For the longest time my reading tastes tended toward fiction, but in the last little while, something's changed. Biography and history are what quenches my thirst now. I've been reading Ã…sne Seierstad's A Hundred & One Days: A Baghdad Journal about her time in Iraq, and it's fascinating. ...
On my walk up to campus this morning I realized that I haven't been reading much lately. And you know what? I'm not well. I have to read. I'm beginning to think it really is some kind of physiological/psychological necessity for me, one of my daily ...
In my last post I briefly mentioned the transformative power of stories, and so here's a little bit more of my thoughts about it. Except "transformative power" sounds too textbooky for me -- stories change people. There, that's simpler. :)
Not only do stories change people, but I don't ...
I went to the Orem Public Library tonight with some friends, and as I suspected would probably happen, the book sale lured me in. I walked out with 19 books. But it only cost me $16, which made me very happy because I spent $20 on a single ...
It's been a while since I blogged about what I've been reading, so it's time for an update.
From that list, Brothers Karamazov has sort of fallen by the wayside, and I need to pick it up again. (Especially because I'm right at the beginning of the Grand Inquisitor ...
Since it's just over halfway through the year, I figured I'd check in on my New Year's resolutions for 2008 and see how I'm doing:
1. I've read 19 books so far this year. Yeah, Houston, I'm in trouble. Considering how things are going I'm not sure if ...
Four things. First, I need to spend more time reading. Seriously.
Second, I hit up the bargain book sale today outside the bookstore and now have exactly 1,000 books. Finally! (They're all in my apartment except for maybe twenty on my desk at work. I, um, ...
First, a nice article from the Edmonton Sun on Project Gutenberg:
Think of Newby, Akrigg and Hart as a breed of literary Indiana Jones — searching along forgotten bookshelves, instead of dark, damp tombs. The thinking man's library raiders — with computers instead of wooden crates to store their prized ...
