Posts Tagged "reading"

I’m always reading, and I don’t necessarily mean books. If there is printed matter anywhere in my line of sight I feel compelled to read it whether it is the back of a cereal box or the Latin that I don’t even understand on piece of artwork. I guess I’m sort of a compulsive reader. There are worse things one could be. I always read signs. I can’t help myself. My problem is that I’m not very detail oriented. Sometimes I skim. So probably if my friend hadn’t sent me the following picture of a sign with a note to read it all the way until the end, I probably would have missed the good part. (Note: you’ll probably have to click on the image so that it expands to a readable...

It’s group blog time once again, It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books. Most of the reading I’ve done this week has been off of a computer screen, and it’s been stuff that I’ve written as well as the revision notes on what I’ve written, none of which really lends itself to a book review. The only books I made it through were Jeff Vandermeer’s wonderful guide for authors, Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st -Century Writer which was filled with all sorts of helpful advice and wonderfully strange graphic novel called Percy Gloom by Cathy Malkasian. I began and was quickly sucked into Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, which has provided...

It’s group blog time once again, It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books. This week I finished up a mystery novel Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan; read a graphic novel, Squirrel Mother by Megan Kelso; finished listening to the audio of An Abundance of Katherines by John Green and read a modern allegory Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller. Bad Things Happen I can’t remember where I first read a review for this debut novel by Harry Dolan, but wherever it was I remember thinking that the book sounded good, and I added it to by to-read list. I’m glad I did. Main character David Loogan has a mysterious past, who in a roundabout way ends up working for the small mystery magazine...

It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is a group blog hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog. You can link your blog by clicking here. I’m cheating this week. I was on the road last Monday, and didn’t get around to participating in the group blog. So, today’s post is actually what I’ve been reading over the past two weeks. I read both of my Christmas gift books The Devil’s Eye by Jack McDevitt and The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett. I also listened to the audio version of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, read The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell and an all ages sort of picture book by Jon Muth called Stonecutter. My quick reviews on each of these books are listed below. The Devil’s Eye Jack McDevitt...

Yesterday, I made a list of my top books of 2009, but the problem is that I read a lot of books this year that were really good, but were not actually published this year. So, here’s a list of some of my favorite books I read this year from 2008 or earlier: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key by Kage  Baker Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Dead Meat by Sue Coe Eifelheim by Michael Flynn Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories by Richard Butner Chiggers by Hope Larson The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu Candy Girl: A Year in the Life on an...