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I’ve been pretty negligent about Weekly Geeks as of late; however, I’m back for this weeks edition, written by Ali from Wordcupia, which is all about historical fiction. Ali had a lot of questions, but here are the ones I liked best: Do you have a favorite book that really pulled you back in time, [...]

I packed a ton of books for my vacation last week, expecting that I’d read a lot on the plane rides. But both flights left around 6:00 in the morning, so I ended up sleeping more than reading on the planes. Sister and I did take a lot of public transportation in San Francisco, so [...]

This week’s Weekly Geeks challenge is a repeat of an earlier topic, Quote-A-Day. I’ve been terrible and not posted a quote yet, but was inspired today after talking to a friend about Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance.” This is one of my favorite parts of the essay: I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My [...]

It’s been a quiet week here at the blog, but that’ s because I just needed a break from blogging.  I just couldn’t think of much to write about, so I figured I’d just not write anything. In place of blogging, I got a lot of other things done.  I finished reading Dangerous Laughter by [...]

It has been a great reading week this week!  I’ve been moving slowly through Steven Millhauser’s Dangerous Laughter, a book of short stories that I’m reading for the March Book Menage over at Citizen Reader. I don’t read short story collections very often, but so far I am quite enjoying it.  I’m used to just [...]

It’s been a very good week of reading for me.  I finished High Fidelity and Lipstick Jihad, both books that I enjoyed very much, although for very different reasons.  Lipstick Jihad reignited by interest in learning more about the Iranian Revolution, and I finally decided to do something about it.  I ventured to our enormous [...]

Last week I was awarded the Excessively Diverting Blog Award by AustenProse, thank you!  This award was created by the bloggers at Jane Austen Today who describe the award like this: The aim of the Excessively Diverting Blog Award is to acknowledge writing excellence in the spirit of Jane Austen’s genius in amusing and delighting [...]

Thanks to poll suggestions, I started and finished High Fidelity by Nick Hornby earlier this week — I really liked it!  The review is probably going to have to wait a little bit though, I lent the book to a friend yesterday and want to pull some quotes for my review. The next book on [...]

This week’s Weekly Geek Challenge is to judge a book by it’s cover.  Becky suggests, Pick a book–any book, really–and search out multiple book cover images for that book. They could span a decade or two (or more)…Or they could span several countries. Which cover is your favorite? Which one is your least favorite? Which [...]