September has been a banner month for my pages read count, although not so much for my time book blogging and reviewing books not for school. I knew I was reading a lot for school, but I didn’t realize just how much until I added it up. Here’s a nifty bar graph you can look [...]
Metadiscourse
I had an interesting lecture in “Mass Communication and Society” this afternoon that got me thinking about book blogging in a new way. Here’s an abbreviated, and probably over-simplified, version of the lecture I heard today. Back in the day, early 1800s, newspapers in the US cost six cents to buy. Given that a good [...]
I have two book blog related things to be dorkily excited about today: a review I wrote of Watchmen got linked by a couple of other blogs based on it’s commentary and I was tagged by gautami tripathy for a book-blogging writing thing. I really can’t tell you how excited those two developments make me [...]
I started classes for my masters last week, and from what I can tell the reading load is going to be prohibitive of me actually getting to read books and do reviews for my blog. I’ve been reading a lot of interesting things — Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville, and The Good Citizen [...]
I’m finally, finally moved into my apartment and have reliable internet access again. I was actually moved in about five days ago, but just got the internet going yesterday afternoon. I have orientation for grad school tomorrow, and then start classes the beginning of next week. My first project as a citizen of Madison was [...]
Just an FYI to any loyal readers out there ( :) ) — I am moving to Madison, WI this weekend and likely won’t be blogging until sometime next week. I have a ton of packing to do still, then moving, then settling in, and then perhaps back to blogging. Wish me luck! P.S. I [...]
After a week of continuous and interesting posting, I had to take a number of days away from regular life and book blogging because I was working to help proctor the Bar Exam — the test all lawyers must take before they can get their license. My mom works for the organization that proctors the [...]
It’s been a great few days of books and book blogging for me. I had an all-time high number of visitors yesterday at 61, which I think is awesome! I’ve also gotten a lot of questions for my Weekly Geeks #12, which I’m working on writing up right now. I think I’ll have a review [...]
This blog is up to about 20 unique hits each day, and I’ve also been linked to two other blogs — I am really excited about both of those developments! I’ve also started to get comments from people on posts, and I’ve been trying to leave comments other places. But, now that I’ve started to [...]
If the automatic posting feature worked correctly, this post is going up at about 12:00 on Monday, May 26 — Memorial Day — while I am happily sitting at my family’s cabin in Wisconsin enjoying some beautiful summer weather. If not, this will just get posted on Tuesday! In trying to figure out a summer [...]
