A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
You’ll have to excuse me while I do a teeny bit of (mostly) shameless promotion. My dear friend Amanda from my undergrad university was recently hired as an Editor for a new video gaming website, Green Pixels. The site launched last week week, and I am so impressed with it. It looks to be a [...]
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This semester, as I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m taking a class on literary journalism. The first part of the semester has been devoted to understanding the development of literary journalism through two books I really enjoyed–True Stories by Norman Sims and The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight by Marc Weingarten. I was going to [...]
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Friday night I finished The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates, which I was very excited about (plus it’s one of my Fall in Reading 2008 books)! I’ve already been thinking about the review in my head and want to get it done this week. I also think I figured out what it is I [...]
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Well, I’m afraid that I have to head off to bed — I’m exhausted! Cheerleading today was really a lot of fun; however, I did not start on my midterm at all — partly from blog hopping and partly from taking the entire day to visit a friend in Rockford, IL and make pies. Anyway, [...]
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Well, I am home from making pie and getting back to cheerleading. I should be working on my midterm, but I really want to get through participant 80 on the list before I do some work. Then I can do the last 40 before I go to bed. That way I can sleep feeling like [...]
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Hour 1, 8:00 a.m. UPDATE — I just did my cheerleading for an hour and only managed to make it to 40 of the blogs (and that was only leaving comments on blogs that had a Read-a-Thon post at the top of their page). It’s going to take me awhile to get through all of [...]
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The Book of Nonsense by David Michael Slater is the first ARC (Advanced Review Copy) I have received, and as such I really wanted to love it so I could write an overly-gushing review. Unfortunately, I didn’t love this book as much as I have enjoyed other young adult fantasy. Although I thought the story [...]
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Last week Neil Gaiman was out and about reading an excerpt of his new book The Graveyard Book in St. Paul. Fellow book blogger Kim L. at Bold. Blue. Adventure. got to see him and wrote a great post about it here. A friend of mine, Ben Wheeler, also attended Gaiman’s speech and was kind [...]
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When I moved to Madison in August, one of the things I got most excited about the seventh annual Wisconsin Book Festival. The theme this year is “Changing Places” — I don’t know what exactly that means, but I’m sure it can be interpreted pretty broadly. Over four days — October 15 – October 19 [...]
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