Robin wrote a post that I just loved reading the other day about how she acquired both her favorite book and her love of reading…well how she continued to develop her love of reading. I just love reading about the stories behind people’s favorite books in their collections. Even if there’s not much of a [...]
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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.”
That’s the [...]
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An afternoon trip to the eye doctor ruined my planned evening of reading. Totally forgot that when you have your pupils dilated it completely incapacitates your reading ability…duh. I’m just now able to barely make out the computer screen as I sit in my dark room, so I decided to blog. Looks like my February [...]
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Just writing to tell everyone hi. I feel like I’ve had absolutely nothing to write about lately, hence the lack of posts. I’m so ready for life to move on. Tired of doing nothing…though I doubt I’ll be saying that next week. I have the advisory board meeting on Monday at my old University (that [...]
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I’ve always been a huge fan of dragons and dragon stories. There’s something about these incredible beasts that just captures the imagination like no other. So many authors have entranced our minds with tales of dragons or included dragons in their stories and they’ve all added their own spin on dragon-lore. You might call Anne [...]
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I’ve come to the realization that my books will soon suffocate me. I’ve even stopped buying them now but they’re still multiplying! I’ve only made one big purchase this year of 5 books from bookcloseouts.com, but I’ve been getting a lot of review copies, so they just keep coming in…I’m like a book magnet! I [...]
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The love letter. The first thing that pops into my mind when I think of the love letter are timeless words of romance, nostalgic thoughts, sonnets, kisses, all that stuff. But Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have treated us to something a little different with Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern [...]
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If all of a sudden you stop seeing posts for a while and I stop commenting on your blog, fear not…it’s only because I own a frickin HP laptop! My computer is doing this lovely thing where once it goes into standby, it just doesn’t wake up…so I’m forced to turn it off. No problem, [...]
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Amberlight, ah Amberlight…the book that frustrated me to no end but paid off in the end! That’s a good thing…it kept me reading. Let me start off this review by saying that if you decide to read this book, see it through…it’s a great read. My initial frustrations with the book were getting into the [...]
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CJ wrote a post today where she mentioned that she just finished reading Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life, which is one of my favorite books. I first read this book when it came out in 1992. It was one of the first “big books” that I read…I was 11 years old and I ordered it from [...]
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