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 Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare’s collaborators. Using textual analysis, a group of 27 scholars are now certain Marlowe had a hand in writing… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Halloween Crafts
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a Halloween Freebie. Ten Bookish Halloween Crafts Make these Altered Halloween Books by Lindsey at Better After. All you need are a few old books, some plastic novelty toys, paper… Read more »
A Challenge for 2017?
A question for you all… Early in 2016, I looked for a TBR list challenge that would work for me, and couldn’t find one. They were pretty much all TBR pile challenges; you had to read books you already owned. But I’ve got a ton of books I want to… Read more »
Sunday Post – 10/23/16
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures — I mean books! My Week It’s been another super-busy week with work, though at least I managed to… Read more »
News & Notes – 10/22/16
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 Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. (NPR) Considered a longshot before the announcement, Dylan has yet to acknowledge the award personally, but… Read more »
In the Dragon’s Eye: Congress of Secrets
In the Dragon’s Eye is where I share the books I’ve got my acquisitive eye on: the ones I’m really excited about and hope to read and perhaps add to the hoard. I also link to “Waiting On” Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Cover links take you… Read more »
Ten Characters I’d Name A Pet After
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Characters I’d Name A Child/Dog/Cat/Car/Etc. After. I’ve always loved the idea of naming pets (or cars, or computers) after book characters, whether human or animal. In fact, all our computers are… Read more »
HoHoHo Read-a-Thon 2016
The HoHoHo Read-A-Thon starts in three weeks! Well, just over three weeks, but close enough. It’s time to sign up and start thinking about what I’m going to read. I know I’m going to be pretty busy with both work and choruses that week, so my goal is to read… Read more »
I’m Back! (Sunday Post – 10/16/16)
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week I worked like a fiend all week, turned one project in, dealt with changes in another (the… Read more »
Sunday Post – 10/09/16
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week I am scarily behind in my work due to circumstances beyond my control (well, mostly.)… Read more »