A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
From the monthly archives:
In the last few days I’ve read a couple of interesting blog posts/articles about the role of literary criticism and reviews in a changing literature market, and am just getting around to posting about them. The first comes from Jacket Copy, the LA Times Book Blog. The post is called “Being a freelance [...]
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The challenge for Week #5 of the Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) is to think about different forms of storytelling. This could include anything from TV shows, movies, music, or anything else. Initially, I wasn’t really sure what to write about for this topic, but [...]
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I first read Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich when I was about 16. I was at my grandparents’ house, and my cool uncle had brought a bunch of books with him as gifts. I grabbed this one and settled in to see if it was any good; I got absorbed immediately [...]
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I’m a little later with this than I would have liked to be, but I’m finally just getting out from under my boxes and boxes of stuff from my move home and just haven’t felt up to doing anything quite yet. Anyway, the challenge for Week #4 of the Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of [...]
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After 10-years at the top of various best-sellers lists, Harry Potter has finally been knocked off. While this story seems newsworthy in that it’s almost like the end of an era, I also think it’s interesting because of the way the Harry Potter phenomenon changed the way The New York Times did their best-sellers [...]
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I got on the boat with the Weekly Geek challenge a little late, but Weekly Geeks is basically a community building, blogging based challenge organized by Dewey on her blog The Hidden Side of a Leaf. Each Saturday, a new weekly challenge is posted, and then anyone who participates will get their blog [...]
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I have just delivered a State of the Family Room Address, sweeping in scope, visionary in strategy, inspirational to one and all, and the issue has just come to committee. And though the committee has been looking at it from many angles, addressing matters of both provenance of the various elements of its unkemptness and [...]
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