Sunday Salon

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a very slow reading week.  I can’t seem to focus on much of anything — I’ve been trying to read Saturday by Ian McEwan, but (even though I recognize it’s a lovely book) I just can’t get into it.  But I want to read.  I want to read a lot, I just can’t [...]

Everyone and their brother has already reviewed or read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, so I’m not going to post a long review myself.  Instead, I want to write a little bit about listening to the book on audio book, something I’ve never done before. Over Christmas, I had a discussion with my sister and cousin [...]

I finally, finally finished all my classes last week!  I don’t have grades yet — final papers are still pending — but I feel pretty confident about how things are going on that front.  One of my papers is on book blogging and the book blogging community, so it’s actually been pretty interesting to write.  [...]

I just remembered that today is Sunday and that I need to write a Sunday Salon post!  Today has been, perhaps, my most unproductive Sunday since I started school.  Of course that would happen on the Sunday before my last week of classes!  It’s not totally my fault — I slept terribly last night because [...]

This Sunday Salon marks my last post for National Blog Posting Month.  I successfully posted every day this month!!  I don’t have time for a full reflection on it just now — I’m packing up to head back to Madison this afternoon — but I’m going to do that this week.  It wasn’t as difficult [...]

In August I read and reviewed Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, a nonfiction, memoirish book about the world of competitive Scrabble.  I loved the book, so when I heard there was a documentary about a similar topic, I started to look for it.  I came across it at the video store yesterday and jumped at [...]

Do ever have books that, as much as you want to be engaged with them, you just can’t seem to make the jump to get into it?  The topic, while interesting, just doesn’t grab you today?  That’s how I’ve been feeling trying to read Niche Envy by Joseph Turrow.  I really want to be into [...]