Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Book Related Problems I Have. 1. My TBR is a monster! This one has 3 parts: My TBR shelves are overflowing. Yes, I said shelves. I have two-and-a-half bookcases plus… Read more »
The ladies at Bea’s Book Nook tagged me for 20 Questions! I haven’t done one of these in a while, and as Bea says, it’s a fun way to get to know a blogger better – so here goes! 1. HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5′ 1″ (plus a quarter… 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 I Want to Read in X Genre. Top Ten Fantasy Books I Want to Read As usual, these aren’t really in any order. And I couldn’t pare it down… Read more »
2016 Book Fairs, Festivals, and Conventions These are just some of the many book-related events of 2016. Locally, I’ve focused mostly on the US and Canada, but many of the major international events are here as well. Some of the events occurring late in the year haven’t been scheduled yet;… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2014 National Book Awards were won by Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson), Redeployment (Phil Klay), Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Sequels I Can’t Wait to Read. Sequels I’m Eager to Read I decided to focus mostly on books that are already published or are scheduled in the next six months,… 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 I Wish Could Have Their Own Book. Fun topic! I’m lucky in that I’ve been following some series long enough that many of my favorite secondary (or even tertiary)… Read more »
An incomplete listing of author birthdays by date. Links will take you to posts on this blog. Jan 2: Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) (Foundation series; I, Robot) Jan 3: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) (The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings) Jan 12: Jack London (1876–1916) (Call… Read more »
I stumbled upon this bookish ABC questionnaire on New Horizons Reviews and thought it looked like fun! Author you’ve read the most books from: Probably Agatha Christie, because I’ve read almost everything she wrote under that name, and she wrote a lot of books (85 under her own name.) Runners-up… 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 That Would Have Sat at My Lunch Table. I wasn’t terribly popular in elementary and middle school; I was bookish and introverted and not very athletic. I spent… Read more »
