Archive: Books category
On A Motley Vision, Anneke Majors has written the post I intended to write. :) Actually, not exactly the same, but I did plan to read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, with the goal of making the same points Anneke makes in her post. It revolves around this question:
What ...
I picked up my French copy of Les Misérables on a whim just a few minutes ago, and as fate would have it, opened directly to my favorite passage. Now, I didn't immediately recognize the passage, seeing as my French comprehension is still a bit on the slow side. ...
Last night I finished Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl, and wow, it's good. Spun into a novel from the Grimms' fairy tale of the same name, Goose Girl easily pulled me into its world, coaxing me with a love potion that's got me head over heels for its ...
Today I saw a blog post on writing a book in Google Docs. Interesting. One of the things that stuck out to me was the <div> hack to rein in the line lengths -- that's one of the things that has bothered me about Google Docs, and ...
From Fire & Knowledge, this lovely article from The Onion, headlined Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book:
Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there's more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently ...
Sometime in the past year I decided to compartmentalize my reading so that I wouldn't spend all my time on fiction. Not that there's anything wrong with fiction -- I'm not avoiding fiction, but rather expanding to include other types of books. I do read nonfiction too, of ...
For the bookworms and bibliophiles among you, ChristianAudio's free audiobook download of the month for January is Milton's Paradise Lost. Nine hours of a British voice (Nadia May's) reading one of the greatest poems in the English language -- it's almost like Christmas all over again. :)
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This morning I came across an amazingly cool post on the LibraryThing blog: the group I See Dead People['s Books] has entered all of Thomas Jefferson's 1815 library into LibraryThing, so you can see what books he had. How cool is that? And it ...
Out with the old...
Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year's post and found that I wrote 452 in 2006. Goodness. But I do think this year's posts were better, at least to some ...
Time for another potpourri post.
1. Here's a bit on eye contact from the SIRC flirting guide which puts into words something I've been thinking about for a while but hadn't solidified:
Eye contact -- looking directly into the eyes of another person -- is such a powerful, emotionally loaded act ...
