Oy veh! What a busy week! Those of you with school-age children (I have three) know that this time of year is almost as bad as December, what with recitals, field trips, and all those end of year events, not to mention the figuring out of what’s going to keep ‘em occupied all summer long. As a result, I didn’t pay much attention to Bookworm this week. I didn’t write my Weekly Geeks post (it would have been a rant against the medical model of childbirth, but I’ve done that already anyway and furthermore I haven’t read a single book on the subject), I haven’t responded to recent comments, and my RSS reader is full of unread posts. I do hope to catch up this week, but there’s still a few more end of year events coming up so we’ll see what happens.
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Posted on May 25, 2008, 9:55 am
by Julie
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Greetings, Saloners! I hope you had a good week of reading. This week I finished one, started another (well, started two, actually), and had a couple of reading experiences that were a pleasant change from the usual.
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Oh my goodness, I hardly know where to begin. This book was so much fun to read! The basic premise is, it’s an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars — with dragons! Yes, that’s right. There was an aerial combat corps (dragons) at the Nile, at Trafalgar, and so forth. Hoo boy!
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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 compiling a list of all the books I’ve ever reviewed and posting them on a separate page. That would make it really easy for other bloggers to tell at a glance whether we have any in common. So I clicked on my own “reviews” category archive, and my goodness, what a mess.
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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:
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Greetings, Saloners!
It was another super-busy week where all I managed to read was one my daughter left lying around: The Rope Trick by Lloyd Alexander. What a delight it was!
Read more on Sunday Salon: Sleight of hand…
Posted on April 20, 2008, 9:08 am
by Julie
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Last night Steve and I found ourselves in the Mystery / Suspense / Thriller section of a bookstore. My intent was to pick up a copy of American Pastoral, next month’s book club pick. (This should be interesting, by the way. For me Philip Roth’s record is 1 and 1: I loved The Human Stain but could not even finish The Plot Against America. It will be interesting to see my third try turns out.)
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