From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Sunday Salon: The End of NaBloPoMo!

by Kim on November 30, 2008 · 8 comments

This Sunday Salon marks my last post for National Blog Posting Month.  I successfully posted every day this month!!  I don’t have time for a full reflection on it just now — I’m packing up to head back to Madison this afternoon — but I’m going to do that this week.  It wasn’t as difficult [...]

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Happy Birthday, Louisa May Alcott!

by Kim on November 29, 2008 · 5 comments

When I was a kid, my mom used to take us to the library about once every two weeks.  I read quickly, so to keep myself satiated with enough to read, I used to pick out books based on how thick they were.  That’s how I first came to pick up Little Women, the biggest [...]

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The Typealyzer

by Kim on November 28, 2008 · 6 comments

Last week, Marg at ReadingAdventures posted a link to The Typealyzer, a system that reads texts online and then uses that to guess the writer’s personality type.  Here is my result:
ESFP – The Performers
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, [...]

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Giving Thanks

by Kim on November 27, 2008 · 7 comments

This is just a quick post to mark Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays.  I’m one of those people that refuses to hang up Christmas decorations or sing Christmas carols or talking about Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving because, frankly, I really hate the way the Christmas season starts right after Halloween.  I think Thanksgiving gets [...]

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Review: A Fables Round Up

by Kim on November 26, 2008 · 4 comments

I’ve been reading the Fables series by Bill Willingham for a couple months now. The problem I have when I try to review an issue of Fables is that it’s a series.  You don’t read the volumes individually; each comic builds on the stories of the previous volume and although you could go through reviews and [...]

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Weekly Geeks #26: New Book Blogs

by Kim on November 25, 2008 · 7 comments

This week’s Weekly Geek challenge is to find five Weekly Geeks that you don’t know, visit their blog, then write about what you have in common with the Geeks you’ve found.
In her about me, Alyssa at The Shady Glade said she loves to watch movies and go to musicals, but is too broke to [...]

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Best of Esquire

by Kim on November 24, 2008 · 2 comments

The awesome editors at Esquire just put together a link of “The Seven Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine… in Full” which is exactly what it sounds like.  If you click on the link above you can get to the full versions of these articles.  The links in the list below just go [...]

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Sunday Salon: Word Wars

by Kim on November 23, 2008 · 2 comments

In August I read and reviewed Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, a nonfiction, memoirish book about the world of competitive Scrabble.  I loved the book, so when I heard there was a documentary about a similar topic, I started to look for it.  I came across it at the video store yesterday and jumped at [...]

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Happy Birthday, Marijane Satrapi!

by Kim on November 22, 2008 · 7 comments

I totally forgot about my next author’s birthday — Marijane Satrapi, author of Persepolis!  I’m going to have to do the full post about her sometime next week, no time left today.  But, I at least wanted the birthday wish to go out on the appropriate day, even if she won’t know it.
Also, I just [...]

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Review: A Prayer for the City

by Kim on November 21, 2008 · 4 comments

As much as I tend to loathe politics, I’m a secret political-process junkie.  I don’t usually like politicians, but I love learning the ins and outs of how government actually works.  That said, I was huge fan of A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger; I think it is one of the best books [...]

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