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One of my goals in the last two years has been to take good notes while I read. I’ve found having notes helps when I start to write reviews because I have ideas, quotes, and impressions jotted down already.
A few people have mentioned they can’t seem to take notes while they read, so I wanted to write a post with five easy tips on how to get in the habit.
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This has to be a pretty quick TSS post because I have people coming over to watch the Superbowl in a couple hours and I have cookies to bake and soup to make.
One of the best things about only taking two classes this semester is the extra time I’ve found to read. Yesterday I was able to finish “Socialism is Great!” A Worker’s Memoir of New China by Lijia Zhang. This was the first book I decided to read off my Women Unbound reading list, and it was a good one.
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Happy Monday, everyone! I wanted to use today to introduce you to the newest member of my family, my cat Hannah. I adopted Hannah from the Dane County Humane Society on Saturday, and so far things are going really well. She’s a sweet, mellow cat, but she loves to play too. She also loves to stick her head in my books and climb all over me when I read, so that might be an adventure.
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Random title, I know, but this is a bit of a random post.
First, Unplugged: Last month (and last year–ha ha!), there was a sort-of challenge for bloggers to take time and unplug. I’m going to be away from good internet access for the next four days while I volunteer with some high school students here in Minnesota. So until Monday, this blog and most blog-related activities are unplugged.
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The Sisterhood of the Summer Book Reviews — a project where my sister and I read and review each others favorite books — was supposed to just be a summer thing. However, our reviews were well-received and we had fun, so we decided to keep doing reviews together throughout the year.
We saw each other this [...]
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Today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week topic is a reading meme designed with questions designed to be answered in five words or less OR using pictures, the idea being post brevity. I decided to answer in photo format, so enjoy!
Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
Do you tend to mark your books [...]
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I realized this morning that I have not finished a single book in the month of August. Part of it’s because I’ve been slogging along with Infinite Jest, which takes a lot of time. Even though Infinite Summer officially ends September 22, my goal is to finish the book before classes start just because I [...]
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I actually don’t have any updates on my reading life for this Sunday Salon, I think because things in my regular life (i.e. everything that’s not reading) have been sort of tough the last few days.
Over the summer I’ve been interning with the Madison city newspaper, The Capital Times (TCT). Like all newspapers, TCT and [...]
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Since I started Infinite Jest, my goal has been to suck it up until page 223. I kept telling myself that if I could just get to page 223, everything would be good.
Why? Because the Infinite Summer blog told me so
In their posts on tips for reading the book, the guides (four readers [...]
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