I have three different set of to-be-read books in my apartment — the fiction shelf, the nonfiction bookcase, and the “books I want to read right now” pile sitting on a chair by my desk. Every time I sit down to blog or do homework or just fiddle away time on Facebook, the growing pile [...]
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Despite some beautiful Madison weather yesterday (almost 70 degrees!), I spent most of the day inside just reading because I feel like I have so much work to do! It was nice actually — I liked feeling like I was being a good student for a change. I anticipate another full day of reading and [...]
Unfortunately, I’m not going to get to participate in Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-Thon this weekend. I’m back in the Twin Cities for some volunteering and time with friends and family, so devoting a whole day to reading just wasn’t going to work. I’m excited to see family, but disappointed about the Read-a-Thon. Oh well, there’s always [...]
Last week a friend slept on my couch over a night on a drive from the Twin Cities down to Louisville, Kentucky. I had homework, sadly, so we spent a quiet evening around the apartment. As it turned out, he forgot the book he was reading in his car, so I got the chance to [...]
I have three sorts of things I want to write about for Sunday Salon today, so I broke them into clever alliterative headings. “Books” is about my reading life this week, “Blogging” is about some minor changes to Sophisticated Dorkiness, and “My Broadcasting” is about some writing I had published around the web this week. [...]
All of the recent Halloween reading challenge posts are making me covet a new monster book to read. The one monster book I know and love is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a book I’ve read so many times I consider myself a bit of a nerdy expert on it. And the best part of that [...]
This week author Michal Pollan was in Madison for a huge series of events because his book In Defense of Food was picked for UW-Madison’s first ever common reading program, Go Big Read. It feels like the whole campus has been buzzing because of his visit. Or, it just feels like the whole campus because [...]
The last topic for Book Blogger Appreciation Week is to look to the future: Write in 50 words or less…what do you like best about your blog right now and where would you like your blog to be a year from now? Good grief… less than 50 words? Tough challenge, but I have prevailed! Here [...]
Today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week topic is a reading meme designed with questions designed to be answered in five words or less OR using pictures, the idea being post brevity. I decided to answer in photo format, so enjoy! Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? Do you tend to mark [...]
Today’s topic for Book Blogger Appreciation Week is to interview another book blogger. I was partnered with the lovely Michelle from Galleysmith (a blog nominated for Best New Blog this year). Looking at Michelle’s blog and the things she’s started already (the Literary Road Trip, for example), I had no idea she’d just entered the [...]
