For this week’s Weekly Geeks, Suey asks: There seems to be a bit of a theme going around the bookish blogopshere this past little while. Have you noticed many posts and lists and ponderings about books from our past? To … Continue reading
Last Wednesday I drove down to Santa Barbara just to see Neil Gaiman speak. And let me say, it was totally worth it. If you ever have a chance to see him speak, go. He is as much performer as … Continue reading
This week’s Weekly Geeks is about Haiti. We’re asked to feature a book, or an author, or do something creative, like write a poem (hah…we all know I’m only good for a parody when it comes to poems). I had … Continue reading
This week’s Weekly Geeks asked us to “take a look at your blogs and do a little generally cleaning. Fix those broken links, straighten out those blogrolls, make some labels. Stuff like that.” And although I didn’t participate in Bloggiesta … Continue reading
Last week for Weekly Geeks Jackieinvited people to share their 10 favorite books published in 2009. The end result will be a list of what book bloggers consider to be the best books of 2009. Please see the original Weekly … Continue reading
The Favorites Mary Yukari Waters June 2009 279 pages This was a really different book for me to read, and not something I normally would have stuck with. Publisher Comments: In her exquisite first novel, Waters explores the complex … Continue reading
This week’s Geeky question is: I think just about every reader has a least one book that they’ve been meaning to read for awhile (months or even years) but, for one reason or another, they just haven’t gotten around to … Continue reading
Wow. I’m 19 reviews behind. How did that happen?!? Lucky for me, this seems to be a trend and both Weekly Geeks and Natasha are conspiring to get me caught up. First, Weekly Geeks. This week Becky revisits an oldie … Continue reading
This week’s task was sent in by Maree of Just Add Books, who’s been thinking about those things that we do when we’re not reading or blogging. She asked… What’s your non-reading guilty pleasure? Trashy TV? Trashier movies? Junk food? … Continue reading
For this week’s Weekly Geeks we’re taking a literary tour of our hometown. Or, in my case, my home county. I live in Morro Bay, California, a small coastal town of about 10,000 (mostly retired) people. Morro Bay is in … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
