Tag: Books

Books, Computers and Internet, Lifelong learning, Writing

Thoughts in 140 characters

  1. Happy Binary Palindrome Day!! (01-11-10) 7:54 AM Jan 11th from web
  2. Typing up my weekend writing progress. dododo 9:05 AM Jan 11th from web
  3. Have moved all books off of three (1 big, 2 small) kids shelves, moved tall shelf into kids room. Now to put all the books back on shelves. 12:58 PM Jan 11th from web
  4. Umm…someone from Tuscaloosa, AL just sent us a baby picture. Would someone like to claim this cute, cute baby picture? 🙂 8:03 PM Jan 11th from web

     

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Books, Lifelong learning, Writing

Thoughts in 140 characters

  • Kids, when you have chocolate-mint breath & brown bits in your teeth & you’re saying you’re not eating my candy cane, I KNOW that you were. 11:39 AM Jan 8th from web
  • It figures: I wait patiently all day for the writing assignment, then it’s sent out just as it’s time to pick up kids from school. *sigh* 3:35 PM Jan 8th from web
  • Looking at http://curiouspages.blogspot.com/ about bad kids books. Read most of them as a child. So funny tears are running down my face. 9:44 PM Jan 8th from web
Around the House, Books, Computers and Internet, Television & Film

Hmmm…

…apparently my new twitter cross-poster is not cross-posting. How sad. I think most of you follow me on Twitter or Facebook though, so I guess it’s not much of a loss.

This week I’ve been obsessing about writing. Update at http://awamiba.dreamwidth.org/

Other than that, there’s been a lot of cleaning/organizing/tidying and kid silliness and playing the Wii (I’m into Super Mario Wii and D&B are into Lego Indiana Jones Wii and Greg is doing Ni Hao Kai Lan Wii game). I read one book last weekend, but the one I’m reading now — some travel memoir — I keep misplacing. I downloaded a bunch of stuff for free for the Kindle iPhone app, so I’ll start reading on that while I wait during pick-up time next week.

I’ve finished watching the first two seasons of Big Bang Theory and loved it. Sadly, I can’t get the first half of the current season anywhere legal, so I’m starting that mid-season when it comes back on. Also watched “Cranford” and “Little Dorrit” on Masterpiece Classic on PBS once again. Wondering why MC can’t be on PBS regularly instead of just at the first of the year.

Finally convinced David to read something not Star Wars related for school reading time for the first time in 3 years. He’s reading 13 Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson, which I loved as a child. Not sure why I loved it. Not a clue, but it’s cute. He has to read aloud to us for 20 minutes each night, so I’m lining up my favorite exciting childhood stories for that. Nick reads the kids some Hardy Boys each weekend night & I read all the shorter books the rest of the week. Greg gets his own story time during the day as well. He picked out a book called My Book Box at the store today & we’ve read it four times since 2pm. 🙂

And now it’s time to go pay attention to my husband….

Books, My Own Personal Weirdness

Not Dead, Year in Review, ETC.

No, I’m not dead. I just don’t feel like blogging any more lately. At all. But, for my own curiosity, here are my book reading stats from last year:

By category:
Short Story Anthologies: 5
Science Fiction: 16
Fantasy: 15
Nonfiction: 12
Young Adult: 9
Mystery: 5
Generic Fiction: 9
Most read author: Lois McMaster Bujold
2nd Place: Agatha Christie
Books I read on my iPhone: 3
Most enjoyed book this year: one of the Vorkosigan Saga. Any one of them, really.
Least enjoyed book this year: there were many & I decided that life was too short, so I didn’t finish them & they aren’t on this list.

Cut for book list length

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TBR Challenge 2009

I’m joining the To Be Read Challenge this year, reading those 12 pesky books on my TBR pile that I manage not to get to year-after-year finally in 2009.

Main list:

  1. The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker *
  2. Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay *
  3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  4. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence*
  5. On the Damned Human Race by Mark Twain
  6. The Book of the New Sun (vol 1) by Gene Wolfe
  7. The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke*
  8. Real Boys: Rescuing our sons from the myths of Boyhood by William Pollack, PhD.
  9. A God Who Looks Like Me: Discovering a Woman Affirming Spirituality by Patricia Lynn Reily*
  10. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692*
  11. The Chronicles of Amber (vol 1) by Roger Zelazny
  12. Queen’s Own Fool: a novel of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris

Alternates:

  1. The Book of the New Sun (vol 1) by Gene Wolfe
  2. The Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams – Special Topics in Calamity Physics
  3. Mind Siege by Tim Lahaye*
  4. Boyhood and Beyond by Bob Schultz
  5. The Brontes by Rebecca Fraser
  6. The Cat’s Pajamas by Ray Bradbury
  7. The Weighers of Souls by Andre Maurois
  8. Laughing Dog by Dick Lochte*
  9. Babbit by Sinclair Lewis*
  10. Loud & Clear by Anna Quindlen
  11. More Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy & Science Fiction*
  12. The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski

So now I just have to decide where to start. 🙂

(Books crossed out are read, books with stars were started, but not finished, books with new titles next to them mysteriously disappeared during the year & had to be replaced with other books)

Originally published at tigersquirrels.net.