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 [...]
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Freshman Reading — Your Help Needed
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2009 | 23 Comments »
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 [...]
BBAW: The Bookish Dozen
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Book Blogger Appreciation Week is a week in which book bloggers and fans of book blogs celebrate the world of books and the bloggers who spend time spreading the love of books around the Internet.
One feature of the week is the BBAW awards, in which specific bloggers receive recognition as standouts in the blogging community. [...]
BBAW Thanks!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Teresa and I were… I believe the correct term is gobsmacked when we learned that we had been shortlisted in the Book Blogger Appreciation Week awards, in the category of Best Collaborative Blog. The book-blogging community is so large, so international, and of such high quality, that not everyone who deserves it even gets nominated, [...]
Giveaway Winner and a Reading Project
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Thanks so much to everyone who entered my Blogiversary Giveaway. It was lots of fun to see which books that I’ve read have caught your interest. So, without further ado, I’d like to announce that the winning comment, selected via random.org, was
#6, JaneGS
Congratulations, Jane! Jane selected Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham as her [...]
And the winners are…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Thank you all so much for your kind comments on my blog-birthday post! As I said, it’s been such an enjoyable year and I’ve learned so much from all of you. I think I’ve read more this year than in years past, partly because I’m having so much fun blogging about it!
Thanks to all those [...]
Michael Cox, 1948-2009
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember that last year I was completely swept away by The Meaning of Night and The Glass of Time, two of the most well-done modern Victorian pastiches I have ever read. This morning, I awake to the news, via Harriet Devine’s blog, that Michael Cox [...]
