Posts Tagged "books"

The Kind of Book Reader I Am

Posted by on Aug 31, 2012 in Book Reviews & Reading | 2 comments

The Kind of Book Reader I Am

I’m a hate, book-busting, delayed-onset (#1), cross-under, sleepy bedtime reader. And you? FacebookTwitterPinterestGoogle +1MoreLinkedInEmailRedditDiggTumblrStumbleUponI’m a hate, book-busting, delayed-onset (#1), cross-under, sleepy bedtime reader. And you?

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Talking about Books at Vancouver Is Awesome

Posted by on Jul 18, 2012 in Book Reviews & Reading, Highlight | 0 comments

Talking about Books at Vancouver Is Awesome

I’m over at Vancouver Is Awesome today, talking about some books I love. So tell me, what are you reading right now? Is it any good? FacebookTwitterPinterestGoogle +1MoreLinkedInEmailRedditDiggTumblrStumbleUponI’m over at Vancouver Is Awesome today, talking about some books I love. So tell me, what are you reading right now? Is it any good?

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Save hurt books! It’s Interweave’s annual sale.

Posted by on Jun 8, 2012 in Books I Wrote | 0 comments

Save hurt books! It’s Interweave’s annual sale.

Being physical products, and all, sometimes books get hurt in transit or in the warehouse. They get bent or scratched, and then people discard them from amongst all the shiny, unblemished books on the shelf at the bookstore. But we love things that wear signs of a life lived, right? Of course we do. Every year, Interweave puts the books they can’t sell all shiny and perfect on book- and yarn-store shelves on sale through their website, at a sweet discount. It’s the Hurt Book Sale. And it’s on now, so here’s your chance to score some inexpensive books, and to give these...

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The Joy of Books

Posted by on Jan 10, 2012 in Book Reviews & Reading | 2 comments

This has been going around the bookish internets this week, and I love it. Love love love. (And look for some Hoopla action. It’s a fabulous embroidery book.) FacebookTwitterPinterestGoogle +1MoreLinkedInEmailRedditDiggTumblrStumbleUponThis has been going around the bookish internets this week, and I love it. Love love love. (And look for some Hoopla action. It’s a fabulous embroidery...

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The Books I Loved and Hated in 2011

Posted by on Dec 5, 2011 in Book Reviews & Reading, Highlight | 6 comments

This was an unusual reading year for me, what with the arrival of Owen at New Year’s and the subsequent months of not sleeping. Mid-January, as I continued to read four pages a day in the novel I started at Christmas, I set myself the goal of reading twelve books this year. At the time, I assumed I wouldn’t sleep the whole year, so the goal of one book a month seemed both ambitious enough to force me to prioritize reading, and realistic enough to be achievable. Of course, at the time I didn’t know that a couple of the books I’d read would push 1,000 pages in...

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