I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with my family on Thursday night. First impressions: I really enjoyed it. Parts of it had me laughing, while parts had me on the edge of (or nearly jumping out of) my seat. And I couldn’t watch the spiders at all, other… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Pew report: Young adults remain bound to libraries, printed books”. (Deseret News) Furthermore, “95%… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Elizabeth Catton’s The Luminaries wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize (Liz Thomson, Publishers Weekly)… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best/Worst Series Enders. One challenge of this week’s topic is that a lot of the series I read don’t exactly end, especially the mysteries. They may stop, either because… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best/Worst Movie Adaptations. I wasn’t too particular about coming up with ten choices, because my first two choices add up to eleven movies all by themselves. I did limit… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books Featuring Travel In Some Way (road trips, airplanes, travelogues, anything where there is traveling in the book!) I was rather spoiled for choice on this topic. Just browsing… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is free choice. I decided to share my Top Ten Favorite SF/Fantasy Worlds. The wizarding world of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. OK, I could do without Voldemort and the Death Eaters,… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Favorite Books I Read Before I Was A Blogger. Only ten? Aaack! How the heck do I choose? There are so many books I love, so many I’ve read over… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Characters from X Genre. I chose fantasy. I’ve been reading fantasy about as long as I can remember, if you count fairy tales as fantasy. Since I’m now old… Read more »
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens at midnight tonight in theaters across the U.S. … and we’ve got tickets! I can hardly wait! Our daughter has knit herself “hobbit feet” — slippers that look like hobbit feet, complete with “hair” — for the opening, and is putting together a costume. … Read more »
