A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
I don’t know about you, but Blog Post Bingo was a lot harder for me than I expected! I’m a little worn out, so this week’s Blog Improvement Project activity is going to be more low-key. This week we’re going to focus on blog basics — when a new reader gets to your site, how [...]
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Week 4 of the Blog Improvement Project was Blog Post Bingo. Of the people who signed Mr. Linky that they participated, 8 of them completed all 10 posts: Dorte H at DJs Krimiblog (with a little fudging), Suey at It’s All About Books, Sherrie at Just Books, Sarah at Behold, the thing that reads a [...]
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Thanks to poll suggestions, I started and finished High Fidelity by Nick Hornby earlier this week — I really liked it! The review is probably going to have to wait a little bit though, I lent the book to a friend yesterday and want to pull some quotes for my review. The next book on [...]
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I finally did some reporting this semester, which I’m excited to tell you about for Journalism Friday, my weekly post on journalism and j-school. My first assignment for Integrated Multimedia Storytelling is an audio and photo project. We need to edit 30-60 seconds of audio, then tie it to 10-15 pictures for a slideshow. Although [...]
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This week’s Weekly Geek Challenge is to judge a book by it’s cover. Becky suggests, Pick a book–any book, really–and search out multiple book cover images for that book. They could span a decade or two (or more)…Or they could span several countries. Which cover is your favorite? Which one is your least favorite? Which [...]
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After a long hiatus, I’m happy to bring you reviews of Wolves and Sons of Empire, the eighth and ninth books in the Fables series by Bill Willingham. As I’ve written before, it’s hard for me to review Fables because the whole thing is a series — if you liked the earlier ones, you’ll probably [...]
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Jeanne at Necromancy Never Pays (what a great blog name!) sent me some questions last week to answer as part of that five questions thing that is going around. Jeanne asked me some great questions, so enjoy! 1. Have you ever bought a novel or recommended it to others based on a strong opinion or [...]
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My brain finally shifted into school mode this week, which was a welcome change to the lethargy and apathy I’d previously felt. However, I was lazy for so long that I’ve spent the whole week catching up without much time for anything else. Hence, we’ll have an abbreviated edition of Journalism Friday. There were a [...]
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One of my secret (or maybe not-so-secret) nerdy passions is grammar. I’m no expert on grammar rules, but I like to think I generally get things right. Over the last few weeks, there have been a bunch of mainstream news articles that have brought up some grammar issues that caught my attention. In Birmingham, England, [...]
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