Yes, even the most unbearable Christmas song ever is delightful when the Muppets are involved! Ba-dum-bum-bum!
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Merry Christmas to All!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Best Books of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2009 | 28 Comments »
Wuthering Expectations and Litlove over at Tales from the Reading Room have reminded me that it’s time to round up a few of the very best things I read this year. I have to say that 2009 has been one of my very best reading years since I started keeping track, along with the golden [...]
Thank You Santa!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Edited to add: Scroll down for a bonus gift update!
Today when I got home from work I was all kinds of discombobulated because some building construction means I have to park in front of my building instead of out back. Parking in front involves a longer walk, which is fine, but the disruption of my routine parking scenario is not so fine. So I was feeling slightly [...]
Sunday Salon: Help! Time for Christmas Shopping
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Dear readers, I need your help! I have a huge number of nieces and nephews, and every year I struggle with Christmas gifts for them. This year, for the first time, most of them are old enough to read or to enjoy being read to, so I’ve decided to get each of them a book.
Here’s [...]
Lord of the Rings Readalong
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2009 | 28 Comments »
As I mentioned on Sunday, several bloggers and I have been wanting to reread J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Eva, Maree, the Literary Omnivore, and I decided to share the experience and wanted to invite along anyone else who wants to join.
Starting January 1, 2010, we’ll be reading one book from the series (including The Hobbit) each month with a [...]
Freshman Reading — Your Help Needed
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2009 | 24 Comments »
I teach at a small liberal-arts college in the northwest USA. One of the things we have here (as more and more colleges do) is an introductory course for first-year students, intended to give them a sense of college work, give them a bond with a small group of fellow students, give them a regular meeting [...]
Read-a-Thon Updates!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2009 | 42 Comments »
Today is the big day!
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I’m not in for the whole 24 hours, but I’m going to read as much as I can today, updating on this post as I go. Unfortunately, I woke up sick last night. I remains to be seen whether it was just something I [...]
Read-a-Thon Time!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
A day of nothing but reading. What could be better? How about reading with blogging friends around the world and for a cause? This Saturday, more than 300 book bloggers and others around the globe will be devoting the day to reading as part of Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-Thon. I participated last October (but missed the April [...]
Banned and Challenged Classics
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
September 26-October 3 is Banned Books Week in the United States. I don’t imagine I need to preach to those of us who are book bloggers; our delight, our passion, our mental and spiritual growth, and our sense of connection to the world and those around us can often be found in the very books [...]
BBAW: Blogging Discoveries
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Book bloggers are wonderful at ferreting out books that haven’t made it onto the best seller lists and writing about them with enthusiasm.
Today for Book Blogger Appreciation Week, we are joining other bloggers to recognize books that we’ve found on book blogs. These are books that we might not have considered, or might not even [...]
