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Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

In the middle of a book, can’t report it yet.
How’s it going on your end-of-year reading push?
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Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

No novels this week. Instead some reading on the Tao and Chi Nei Tsang (remember this? That’s Chi Nei Tsang). (By the way, I couldn’t remember what I called that post, so I just did a search on my blog for “belly poking.” I’m laughing right now as I type [...]

Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Yay! I read one of the books on my end-of-year list! Love it when I actually do what I say I want to do.
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King was AMAZING. Complex and shocking, a complete surprise from the very beginning. I stayed up until 11:00 three nights in a row, then [...]

Tuesday Book Club–Wake

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

It’s funny, but ever since I declared that for the rest of the year I only have to read the six books I’ve been wanting to read for months, I keep getting seduced by these other fabulous books. I pick them up, read a page, then have to read straight through in a day.
So [...]

Tuesday Book Club–Spanking Shakespeare

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

There are few pleasures in life like a book that makes you laugh out loud, so please let me introduce you to one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long, long time:
Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner. It’s about 17-year-old Shakespeare Shapiro, a young man who lives up to both the promise and [...]

End-of-Year Reading Challenge

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

I have a proposal. You know how all of us keep looking at each other’s Tuesday Book Club reports, and saying, “Oh, I want to read that! I keep meaning to get to that other one,” etc.?
Let’s just commit to a short list of those.
Forget where you are in the 50-Book [...]

Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Five books this week. Wahoo! And two of them by Shannon Hale–double hoo!
I started with her newest one, Book of a Thousand Days, last week, and then yesterday read in one sitting Princess Academy. Truly loved them both. There’s this feeling with some books after just a few sentences that you [...]

Forced downtime

Monday, October 15th, 2007

At some point Friday evening, the hotel where I was staying decided I’d spent enough time on the computer, and it cut me off. I could still access some other people’s websites, but not my own, which also meant I couldn’t pick up any of my e-mail. Torture! But I’m back home [...]

Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

I’m still halfway through a book, so I can’t report it yet.
What did you guys devour this week?
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Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Ahh. Back to reading this week. It feels so good.
Two books, enjoyed them both:
The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 by P.J. Haarsma. You may recall me talking about PJ last week. As I’d been warned, his school presentation BLEW ME AWAY. In one hour that man had the kids [...]