Teaser Tuesdays

Where have I been? A little sick, one  family crisis, battling with the husband for laptop time and reading all the books I need to work as fast as I possibly can, which is not fast enough! I’ve even resorted to books on tape, which I’m absolutely no good at. Excuses aside. I’ve read a [...]

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BBAW: You and Your Reading Habits

Thought I would give this a go for BBAW. I think I missed the “in as few words as possible”  instruction, please forgive me.
Do you snack while you read?
I can’t really eat and read at the same time. Sometimes I try to read during my lunch break, but I usually end up waiting until [...]

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Life According to Literature

I saw this on Danielle’s blog and thought it was too good to pass up. Some categories were definitely easier to answer than others!
Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It’s a lot harder than you think!

Describe yourself: Daughter of [...]

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Main Street

It’s true that I do a lot of my shopping online these days, but I still prefer to buy things from local stores. Not the mall mind, I can hardly breathe when I get in one and I feel like I’ve walked through the Sahara Desert when I get home. I love to shop at [...]

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Serendipity ~ Milton, Dante & Oscar Wilde

Last week at work, I was filling some of our displays at the library and as usual I got a little sidetracked looking at the books. You’d think I’d be jaded by now, but no. I can’t remember what book I was looking at, but I remembered that Meljean Brook wrote the first in her [...]

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Jamie Ford

Everytime I visit Jamie Ford’s blog I find myself laughing. Here is part of a post about how a research library wants him to donate his notes and early drafts to their archives:
The only problem is that my handwriting is so poor it looks like I did my note taking in the dark in a [...]

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Woo hoo!

There’s a great interview with Graceling author Kristin Cashore on HipWriterMama’s blog. If you haven’t read it yet, you must. Okay, you don’t have to, but it’s really good and I know that it would have been great for me to have read as a 14 year-old girl looking in desparate need of a strong [...]

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Writer’s Almanac

I love the Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. I’m not a big fan of Prairie Home Companion even though my dog Lola loves it. She gets all dreamy when she hears his voice. Anyway. I try to catch it on the radio, but miss it most times so I’m glad for the online version.

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78 Out of a Thousand: A Lesson in Humility

You may or may not have seen the Guardian’s list of 1000 novels everyone must read. Below is my woeful list of books that I”ve read off that list. Whenever there is a list like this that comes out, you feel like you need to have read most of the books on the list. Or [...]

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Catching Up …Or Not

Do you ever feel like things are just out of your control? In addition to the usual hectic holiday season and weather that has trapped us in our house over the past 3 days, last week a sprinkler malfunctioned at the library where I work and caused some pretty serious damage. Most of the water [...]

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