This week’s challenge is to encourage other bloggers who have reviewed the same book you did to send you a link to their post; then you include those links at the bottom of your review. My first thought was: what a great idea! And my second thought was: what a housekeeping nightmare! I imagined myself [...]
Category Archives: Reading
Sunday Salon: mixed reviews
Greetings, Saloners! I hope you all had a good week of reading. Mine was mixed. I gave up in the middle of one book, which always makes me sad, but I started another that’s pretty fabulous so far. Here are the details: American Pastoral (Philip Roth) I strongly believe that life is too short to waste on [...]
Wondering what to read next?
I know, I know. Your TBR stack is teetering already. But on the off-chance that you’re at loose ends and don’t know what to read next, check out the Literature Map. You type in the name of an author and you get a visual representation of other authors that are (I guess) also liked by [...]
Weekly Geeks #1
Have you heard about the Weekly Geeks challenge yet? Each week Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf will post a theme or idea for a blog post. If you want, you can write a post in response to the challenge, and at the end of the week Dewey will collect them all and [...]
Sunday Salon: American Pastoral
I started Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral, this week. It’s this month’s book group pick. I was curious about this one because I’m on the fence about Philip Roth. That is, I thought The Human Stain was magnificent but I couldn’t even get past the first few chapters of The Plot Against America. [...]
My reading plan
I’ve tried — and given up on — numerous reading plans over the years. All those “challenges” that seem to pop up around the blogosphere that sound so enticing? Now I just ignore those posts, much as I’d love to read six non-fiction books this year, twelve books by authors I never heard of, three [...]
The lost pleasure of books
I can’t let that last paragraph go. I’ve been thinking about it constantly ever since I first read it a couple of weeks ago. Here it is again: I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest [...]