Nothing like going into a new year with a heaping pile of books to read. After considering high-school reads I want to revisit, I stumbled upon the 9 Books for 2009 challenge to work through books in your TBR (to be read) stack. Actually, it was very useful to even gather together a comprehensive...
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Surfing blogs the other day, I came across a reference to The Scarlet Letter that thrust me back to my Grade 10 English class. I never, ever liked having to read novels for school, but looking back now I wonder what I'd think of them as an adult—both because I've reached my full cognitive...
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I read The Andromeda Strain when I was around thirteen years old. I grabbed my dad's yellowed copy off his towering shelves of sci-fi and pretty much devoured it. It might be the book that sparked my lifelong fascination with apocalyptic fiction. For a couple of years I've been meaning to reread it with...
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I worked two jobs the summer before my fourth year of university. It was the first summer since I was fifteen that I didn't spend working at or attending a summer camp. I was twenty-one and living off campus in a perfect apartment with my best girlfriends. It was a killer summer.
One of the...
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In the last four days I have read a thousand pages of teen vampire drama-romance. And I didn't even call in sick for work. I frankly don't know how I managed it (a full day of traveling back to Vancouver from Oklahoma yesterday certainly helped).
Annette asked me what I thought of Twilight, and I...
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Every year since we moved to Vancouver, I've managed to leave town in the height of spring transition. Just as the cherry and crab-apple blossoms come into full bloom, I hitch a plane out of town. This year is no different, and today is my day to dive into the mad frenzy of preparing...
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I bailed on spending the weekend with friends on Bowen Island in favour of spending intensely quiet time in our empty house. Yesterday, I finished reading Harry Potter (adored it), I napped, I flipped...
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Thanks to many generous responses to my plea for book recommendations, here's a list of science fiction books to put on your list. As I get to them, I'll certainly write about them here.
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (thanks, Penny)
Time and Again by Jack Finney (thanks, Penny)
Thanks to Marikka:
The Time Traveler's Wife...
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I've just signed up for a sock knitting class at Urban Yarns next Wednesday. It'll be good to get out of the house to play with yarn - not for work. I can't wait! DPNs be warned: I will master you, if it kills me.
I'll have a full book recommendation wrap-up as soon as...
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Recently, the Mr and I have been discussing both food and science fiction* at length. I'd love your help on book recommendations, if you'd be so kind. Here's some background about each topic:
I grew up surrounded by bookshelves filled two rows deep with well-loved, cracked-spine sci-fi books that seemed to go back to the...
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