A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
Everyone and their brother has already reviewed or read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, so I’m not going to post a long review myself. Instead, I want to write a little bit about listening to the book on audio book, something I’ve never done before. Over Christmas, I had a discussion with my sister and cousin [...]
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I rarely get books in the mail because I don’t usually do ARCs and don’t often enter in giveaways online. I don’t do ARCs because I like to read what I feel like reading without feeling obligated to get to a book specifically because I agreed to review it. I’m not sure why I don’t [...]
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At first I wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver because I’m not a huge fan of chick lit. The book starts out sounding much like the relationship drama books I tend to avoid; however, I kept with it because I was intrigued by the structure and premise [...]
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Weekly Geeks was the first blogging community activity I joined, so I’m excited to see it back. I’ve been helping out with some of the behind-the-scenes admin work to get things going again (mostly just maintaining the e-mail and that sort of thing), but I’m happy to be a part of it. This week’s activity [...]
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I’ll be gone from Thursday – Sunday volunteering with Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government. I get to spend four days hanging out at the Minnesota state capitol (pictured left), hanging out with some of the best high school students I can imagine working with. I’ll be without internet, a state I find almost tragic, but [...]
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I’ve been inspired and excited by reading through all the goals people have posted about. It’s given me a lot of food for thought as I try to formulate my own goals for 2009. Make time for personal reading. In 2008 I read a lot of books for class that I reviewed here, but in [...]
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Inspired by Care’s Quick Mini-Reviews to Finish 2008, I’m going to just do some short comments on the last few books I feel like reviewing for 2008. I’m skipping a few books, mostly because I didn’t have strong feelings about them, but this list covers the ones I have something to say about. Friday Night [...]
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Michael Lewis’ book Liar’s Poker is a piece that gets mentioned pretty often in discussions about literary and participatory journalism. Written in 1989, the book is about Lewis’ experiences right out of college as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the 1980s. The book was supposed to be a cautionary tale about excess greed [...]
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Welcome to the first week of the 2009 Blog Improvement Project! The first topic we’ll be working on is goal setting — what do you want to accomplish with your blog in 2009? The first part of this post is links to some articles on goal setting that I found online, the second part is [...]
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The last book I finished in 2008 was Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger. I had this book on my radar even before I read A Prayer for the City, because I have a soft spot in my heart for inspirational sports stories. Even though the book turned out to be different than I expected, [...]
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