As you may know, in my old life, I devoured books in their traditional format, and in my current life, I devour them via fancy little headphones. (The actual process: Load up 4-5 audiobooks on CD from the library, import them into iTunes, listen on the dying iPod. Repeat.) Maybe a year ago, I started rejecting bad books. I'm not all that picky ( Read more... )

January
Kat's Cradle by Karen Kijewski in paperback. I bought this used a couple of months ago at Half Price Books before a movie. I'm more than halfway through and enjoying it so far; with female PIs, I reserve my opinion until the end of the first or second novel. (Same with cozies. And let's not talk about the audiobooks I have given up on ( Read more... )

If you live on Capitol Hill or nearby you may want to head over to Stitches for this:

5eptember 25, 5:00pm - 8:00pm (Monday)
Sew Subversive Book Signing
Coinciding with the release of their book, Sew Subversive: Down & Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista, three life long friends are out to refashion America one closet at a time. The Authors, ( Read more... )

January
Hard Eight (Janet Evanovich audio) not much to report...
The Golden Spruce (carry over from December '05, just now getting moving in it). Finished. Great book: a history of logging on the coast. Well-written and illuminating; doesn't make you crazy with trying to keep facts & figures in your head. New words: crespuscular, for one. Made me ( Read more... )

I've been so bookish lately. I don't regret it.

Here's a blog entry with some really great book suggestions and I'm noting it here primarily for my own reference.

(Spaidine has been CARAZAY lately.)

Office picture offered as a way to make this totally boring entry intriguing to anyone else in the universe:


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Let's play the books we've read game! This is based on the Time list of 100 best novels etc etc... link: http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html. I'm going to highlight the ones I've read and stuff. (Click to read what I mean by "and ( Read more... )

This is a list in progress. I'm taking off the backdate because I don't like it being at the top!

January through May
Dreamcatcher: A Memoir / Salinger
Embroideries / Marjane Satrapi
Ghost Dance / Carol Maso (did I finish this? very interesting book yet strange.)

JuneDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight / Alexandra Fuller (great memoir about ( Read more... )