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For someone who constantly alleged she had “no time for reading” and was “always busy” I sure found time to read a lot of books in April! This month I managed to finish seven books, the most I’ve read in any month this year, for a total of 1,954 pages. That makes my year-to-date total [...]
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Title: The Professor and the Madman
Author: Simon Winchester
Length: 242 pages (paperback)
One Sentence Summary: The most famous editor of The Oxford English Dictionary discovers that the greatest contributor to the OED is an American Civil War veteran living as an inmate in a home for the criminally insane.
One Sentence Review: Winchester’s history of the OED ties [...]
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On Sunday, The New York Times reported that online comic xckd is going to have a book out in March!
The article first asks if this book, a print book of a comic that is exclusively online, is a victory for the world of print because people don’t want to read things online. However, it soon [...]
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I Was Told There’d Be Cake is the debut essay collection by twentysomething Sloane Crosley. The book covers topics as wide-ranging as Crosley’s first job to a terrifying boss to Crosley awkwardly serving as maid-of-honor for a high school friend she hadn’t spoken to in years.
Although various reviewers have called Crosley “a new master of [...]
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First of all, I have to announce the winner of my Draw-a-Comic Mini-Challenge. With 24% of the vote, the winner is The Brain Lair! Congrats, and send me an e-mail so I can get you your e-gift certificate!
Every comic got at least a few votes, and the top three comics were very close. I Heart [...]
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I did it! I visited all 192 blogs signed up on the Read-a-Thon Mr. Linky! It is a good feeling!!
Clearly, I need to get to bed, I’m using way to many exclamation points.
For those interested, Boyfriend and I had leftovers, watched Arrested Development and The Hours, and ate some pie. I took a nap and [...]
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Blog Improvement Project Week #8: Leaving Good Comments
by Kim on April 20, 2009 · 20 comments
I am so sorry to be posting this late! I’ve been playing catch-up from the Read-a-Thon and end of the semester and an interview today and just plain forgot. I hope you’ll forgive me!
Last week in the BIP we focused on trying to make our blogs more comment-friendly (wrap-up coming later this week). This week, [...]
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