ASPIRING WRITER (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I should say this first – I am a peculiar person but I was told that a fiction writer is peculiar anyway. I can’t remember who told me this; I more than likely read or heard it somewhere. I mentioned this to my writer friend's, one said, ‘Oh, baloney!’ and another said, ‘Everyone knows that!’ I’m not sure what to believe. I’m speaking from writers who...
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
We’ve been running a survey where we asked our customers to name their 5 favourite books of all time (in no particular order). We had thousands of replies and we’re really grateful to all of you who took the time to vote. From all your choices we can now reveal the Top 50 most popular books. First of all a recap on numbers 50-11 11 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I'm signing up for the TBR challenge again this year. Here are the rules: * the challenge is to read 12 TBR books in 12 months — you can read those all in one month if you want, or one a month, or however you wanna do it. * you should have a list posted somewhere for others to see * you CANNOT change your list after January 1st, of the current year!!! * you can create an Alternates list of MAXIMUM...
Irregular Tammie (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
I hope everyone had a lovely holiday. I woke up to a note left by my mom informing us that they had gone to Miami to spend Thanksgiving with the boyfriends family. This was a last minute shocker, but I've come to expect this kind of stuff so I really wasn't as disappointed as I could have been. It just means we have a ton of leftovers, since Jay and I had bought and prepared enough food for seven people...
Monkeygirl (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I am glad I am recording all the adventures I have been having, as sometimes I feel like I am boring, but then it turns out I am not! So additional adventures: 1) Some friends and I went to see Margaret Atwood in a dramatic reading of her new book, " The Year of the Flood ". I was intrigued, because I loooooove Margaret Atwood, but also mildly concerned, as I thought a dramatic reading with...
Visual St. Paul (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Talking Volumes: A book club where the author shows up! My previous post featured Barbara Kingsolver who wowed the crowd at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul and last Wednesday night, Stephen King showed up to be interviewed by Terri Miller of Minnesota National Public Radio. He, too, was a huge hit with the audience. I wasn't seated as close to the stage as during my previous visits, but even at...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Lacuna In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from...
Fluttering Butterflies (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
...Another trip to the library! Sorry about the terrible photos. Bad lighting, bad angles. Oh well. Some interesting looking books though... First up we have The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver which I snatched up from the New Releases shelf. I try to be dignified about it all, but failed pretty miserably. I got looks. Then we have Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer , which was...
WalletPop Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Filed under: Bargain Babe Borders has just released three coupons that are good today through Thursday, Nov. 19. The coupons are also valid at Borders Express and Waldenbooks. To use the coupons you must be a member of their loyalty program, called Borders Rewards, which is free to join. Coupon No. 1: Get 50% off one of 20 hardcovers, including Under the Dome by Stephen King, Ford County by John Grisham,...
pages turned (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I realized yesterday that I need to read just one book a week for the rest of the year and I'll reach 100 for the first time since 2001. A shamefully small number for many book bloggers, I know, but one that makes me happy nonetheless--particularly since I have not cut back on internet useage at all. Whatever happened to my resolution last January to use time wisely? But I do intend to cut back on...
My Tragic Right Hip (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Our email is down at work for the moment and that means it's oddly quiet in terms of the interwebs. So, I'm stealing, " It's Monday! What Are You Reading? " from Jonita who participates in the original meme? idea? post? from J. Kaye's blog . Books I Completed This Week Are : Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro and The Human Stain by Philip Roth. Books I'm Currently Reading : Northanger Abbey...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
As Barbara Kingsolver writes so charmingly in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, turkey farming is a brutal business--unless you can find an organic, preferably small-farm, source. My...
Biting Edge (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Mario here: Ever wonder what happens when authors don't make nice at a signing? It can look like this: Ain't pretty. And there's more. See Jaye Wells and Nicole Peters trade cheap shots in Shreveport, LA. But not all signings turn into bloodlettings. Jennie Shortridge's recent signing at the Tattered Cover LoDo was not only well attended but also violence free. Jennie was here from Seattle to promote...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Stealth Photo-Op w/Leonard Nimoy Originally uploaded by kleopatrjones Happy Leonard Nimoy Day ! Barbara Kingsolver writes about political topics, but don't call her a "political writer." A play about the last novelist in the whole world. Pulitzer Prize winning play, Ruined, is going on the road . Saaed channels rage into poetry. Cormac McCarthy : I'm not interested in writing short stories....
Visual St. Paul (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Although I am still on my self-imposed sabbatical I felt that I should share these photos of writer Barbara Kingsolver. I saw her being interviewed by Terry Miller at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul last Wednesday as part of the Talking Volumes series, sponsored by The Loft Literary Center and NPR. Great evening because T. Miller always does a superb job of interviewing the writers who are engaged...
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