A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
I finally, finally finished all my classes last week! I don’t have grades yet — final papers are still pending — but I feel pretty confident about how things are going on that front. One of my papers is on book blogging and the book blogging community, so it’s actually been pretty interesting to write. [...]
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I have to admit, I wouldn’t have picked up The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson if it wasn’t one of the required books for my literary journalism class because the topic — lobsters and the people that love them — isn’t something I would normally read about. But Corson’s book is so good [...]
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Still having some writer’s block, so here are a few more interesting links I came across over the last couple days. Nintendo and HarperCollins announced a deal where they will make 100 classic book titles available to read on the Nintendo DS game console. Sadly, these DS books will initially only be available in the [...]
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Yes, the project I tossed out some ideas about last week is finally up! This is the first big community thing I’ve ever hosted, so I’m a little nervous, but I think it will be a lot of fun! The 2009 Blog Improvement Project is a year-long challenge that will consist of twice-monthly activities to [...]
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Madison is going to be hit with a massive snowstorm tonight bringing 6-11 inches of snow along with some freezing rain. I’m not a big fan of that, so I wasn’t in the best mood on my bus ride home today. However, when I got to my front door and found a colorfully wrapped package, [...]
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Timothy Egan wrote a great guest column in the New York Times yesterday where he bemoans the trend of publishing memoirs from people taking advantage of their 15 minutes of fame (like Joe the Plumber’s new memoir, good grief). A quote: Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to [...]
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I just remembered that today is Sunday and that I need to write a Sunday Salon post! Today has been, perhaps, my most unproductive Sunday since I started school. Of course that would happen on the Sunday before my last week of classes! It’s not totally my fault — I slept terribly last night because [...]
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Books by Joyce Carol Oates are the epitome of my idea of sophisticated dorkiness. You don’t feel bad reading Oates because she seems literary and sophisticated (which she is). However, the plot of each book could be straight out of one of the Lifetime movies I sometimes watch and then feel embarrassed that I got [...]
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Like I mentioned yesterday in my post about NaBloPoMo, I’m pondering the idea of hosting a challenge for 2009. My idea is “A New Year, A New Blog,” a year-long blog improvement project with a series of activities to improve your blog. I read a few blogs on blogging — ProBlogger and Copyblogger, and more [...]
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