Milestone #1: 500 Reviews and Counting!


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The Hard Truth About Hardcovers

Weird fact: unless it's a small, cute size, I hate reading hardcovers. I blame it on how when I was growing up, all of my school books were these GIANT hardcover beasts that nearly broke my back when you fit them in my backpack.

However, my husband is obsessed with hardcovers. He's a collector, so that means he's ( Read more... )

Guest Blogging Galore!

Okay, maybe not galore, but I have been rambling of late on other peoples' blogs, and I thought you just MIGHT be interested in what I'm talking about. MAYBE ( Read more... )

What'cha Reading?

There was a topic that I really wanted to talk about today, but it didn't occur to me as a discussion topic until today, which means I haven't had ample time to process what I want to say, how I want to say it, and then provide examples. But I promise, it'll be a good one. I'm hoping it'll be just as fascinating to consider as ( Read more... )

A List

Not in the right frame of mind to formulate a discussion, so let's talk little things:

1) Last week, we discussed what we read on sick days. As irony would have it, I came down with a stomach bug late Wednesday and have been suffering ever since. But it was, at least, a stomach bug, and not complications from my surgery, which is what I ( Read more... )

Sick Days

I was going to post this on Labor Day, but I got so wrapped up in my Why Must YA Have Romance? post that I decided to save this topic for this week ( Read more... )

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Normally, I keep personal things pretty far away from this journal, and pretty far away from the internet, period. But those of you who follow me on Facebook (my personal page, not my fan page) already know this, and I wanted to share this with the rest of you because it may be affecting future posts, and since it's the end of the month, that might ( Read more... )

Change Will Do You Good

So you know about my plan to reduce my TBR pile by increasing my number of DNFs. And if you don't know it yet, you do now: the theme for my 2011 book club is focusing on reducing my TBR pile farther (haven't heard the theme yet? Click hereBut there's a few other things I've done, and maybe it's cheating a little, to reduce ( Read more... )

To Finish or Not to Finish, That is the Question

There's a certain contract between author and reader. If the reader decides to get a book (and for the case of my argument, we're going to discuss purchasing the book, not getting it from the library), there's the unspoken expectation the reader is going to finish the book. The contract is this: I ( Read more... )