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Comment on 12 Books: To Say Nothing of the Dog by 12 Books, 12 Months: Month 3 Round Up | latterday bohemian

12 Books, 12 Months: Month 3 Round Up | latterday bohemian — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:30:24 +0000

[...] actually read FOUR books this month and summarized them all in one review. I don’t think I can do her post justice in a short paragraph – in addition to [...]

Comment on Latecomer to 12 Books, 12 Months by 12 Books Sign-up Round-up: Bonus Edition! | latterday bohemian

12 Books Sign-up Round-up: Bonus Edition! | latterday bohemian — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:18:06 +0000

[...] and sign-ups arrived in my inbox while I was away A big welcome to: Anj, Jennifer, Out of Yarn, Sara, and Unmitigated Me. And you can now peruse lists from: Amy, Lanea, Nanette, Rebekah, and [...]

Comment on Short History of Myth by 12 Books, 12 Months: Month 1 Round Up | Latter Day Bohemian

12 Books, 12 Months: Month 1 Round Up | Latter Day Bohemian — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:38:01 +0000

[...] complete with servants and fine china [review]! Similarly intriguing was Sara‘s review of A Short History of Myth – the first in a series of authors from different countries [...]

Comment on To say… by English 2 - Friday March 1

English 2 - Friday March 1 — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:12:03 +0000

[...] “This Is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams and Erica-Lynn Gambino, respectively [...]

Comment on Books of 2011 by rudibrarian

rudibrarian — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:09:12 +0000

I read the Maria Doria Russell books years and years ago, and I still think about them frequently. While I no longer feel gutsick about them, I still ponder them and draw new parallels. And I’m some one who often loses details of books I read last week!

I loved The Magicians, but cannot bring myself to start the Magician Kings. I kinda hated the set-up for it. You talked about the one, but not the other — talk me into reading TMK?

And, I got an ARC of The Night Circus in June, still haven’t cracked it open. I’m buzz fatigue? It looked so great when I picked it up in the exhibit hall….

Comment on Books of 2011 by Sara

Sara — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:50:09 +0000

True that. And I remembered I also have the Made to Stick book from the library. But those Borges paperbacks would certainly be smaller.

Comment on Books of 2011 by Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:46:39 +0000

I’ll poke you at least a couple of times to read something nonfiction. Ooh. I went and looked at your categories. Either Borges would be excellent! Both Seven Nights and Lectures on Literature are smallish and lightweight. You could easily pack one of those and they have short pieces to ease the issues of divided concentration.

Comment on Two-Thirds Book Challenge by Beth

Beth — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:54:59 +0000

Themes work better for me. I will get excited about a book I hear about but then disappointed when bogged down in the second chapter. Themes are flexible and leave room for changing my mind. Not that I do that a lot…but specific titles are good too, sometimes. Depending on my mood or hot flash or whichever comes first…. Reading, yes!

Comment on Halfway through 12 Books 12 Months by 12 Books, 12 Months: Month 5 Round Up | latter day bohemian

12 Books, 12 Months: Month 5 Round Up | latter day bohemian — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:50:46 +0000

[...] I haven’t read much science fiction, so I apologize if I do these stories a disservice in my summary. Angel reread Dune, one of the most seminal of the genre, full of “suspense…political intrigue, adventure, and coming of age, all in an epic science fiction tale.” His review ends with a strong exhortation that “if you consider yourself a science fiction reader, and you have not read Dune, go read it.” J Harker took advantage of a rare opportunity for pleasure reading and read not one but two sci-fi novels: Citizen of the Galaxy [review] and Snow Crash [review], both of which imagine other lives in other worlds, though not entirely convincingly. The former, written in the 50s, explores slavery and race relations in a far distant future; the latter hearkens back to strange fads of bygone days, somehow making what sounds like a plodding story fun and engrossing for 470 pages. Now THAT is good writing. Or bad writing. Or something. Also points to J Harker for the reference to Hackers, which I also cited in my class Tuesday night. On a slightly different but related note, Sara read Haroun and the Sea of Stories, written by Salman Rushdie ”just after the fatwa against his life was announced, wondering each day if he would see his son again.” As a result, the book – written for children but enjoyed by adults – is an allegory packed with the sort of characters Rushdie was encountering in his real life. [review] [...]

Comment on Googly Googly Googly by Moxxi

Moxxi — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:33:26 +0000

@Daniela “Production Companies” are very frequently (and in this case) made on a per film basis. The title of this production company refers to the lines in the film, not the other way around…