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In happier news, today, March 4th, is World Book Day. Now, I know there are about a bazillion ‘days’ for all sort of industries. For example, this month alone in the UK sees:
National Bed Month
Veggie Month
Fair Trade Fortnight (22 Feb-7 Mar)
Self Injury Awareness Day (1 Mar)
World Maths Day (3 Mar)
World Book Day (4 Mar)
National Doodle [...]
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March 4, 2010 in book news, education, publishing Tagged books, children, education, world book day
Because I just can’t resist a book meme.
Total number of books owned:
According to LibraryThing, 1654. This is just my books, not FH’s. At last count he has around 300 or so, mostly music-related non-fiction, some modern history, a lot of Peanuts.
Last book bought:
As recently reported, I splurged with birthday book tokens recently and [...]
March 2, 2010 in memes, personal
Tagged books, bronte, margaret atwood, meme, roald dahl, virginia woolf
Tagged books, bronte, margaret atwood, meme, roald dahl, virginia woolf
See? This is why I’m delighted to be part of a book group. If Dovegrey Reader hadn’t suggested Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck’s Report for the Not the TV Book Group, then it would have passed me by completely. I had barely heard of it, let alone actually considered reading it, and if I’m perfectly frank I [...]
February 16, 2010 in fiction, not the tv book group, review
Tagged books, brodeck's report, fiction, french, not the tv book group, philippe claudel, war
Tagged books, brodeck's report, fiction, french, not the tv book group, philippe claudel, war
As I so delicately mentioned in my last post, Friday was my birthday, and I’m pleased to say that I received lots of very lovely books, not to mention some as-yet-unspent book tokens.
Behold:
Silent in the Sanctuary and Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn – these are neo-Victorian novels, and if the first volume of [...]
I have, if you haven’t noticed, been away for a few days. FH and I decided that we fancied a jaunt up to Edinburgh to see friends and family, and generally to see the city outside the festival season (the only chance I’ve had to go up there in the last couple of years is [...]
I was thinking to myself only the other day there that it’s a long time since I was in any kind of book group, online or off. There was a short-lived attempt by a small groups of friends and I some years ago that lasted one, rather wine-fuelled meeting (or was it two? I can’t [...]
January 24, 2010 in blogs, fiction, not the tv book group
Tagged blogs, books, not the tv book group
Tagged blogs, books, not the tv book group
I’ve been having trouble reading again. I’m not sure why. I decided that the only thing for it was to have a literary “re-set”: put aside the two or three things I have started reading since the beginning of the year, and try something else entirely.
I started The Quincunx at the very end of December, [...]
I used to do these charts fairly regularly, but have somewhat fallen out of the habit. However, since the list of Top 100 Bestselling Books in the UK for 2009 is being published, I thought it might be interesting to have a look at the Top 20.
1. The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
2. Eclipse – [...]
January 4, 2010 in charts
Tagged 2009, bestsellers, books, dan brown, kate summerscale, steig larsson, stephanie meyer, twilight
Tagged 2009, bestsellers, books, dan brown, kate summerscale, steig larsson, stephanie meyer, twilight
Well, I hope you all had very happy Christmasses. Kirsty Towers seems very quiet now after having family down from Glasgow for a few days. We had a lot of fun, a lot of food, and occasionally rather too much wine – but that’s Christmas for you. I now have pretty much an entire week [...]
I’ve never really been one for reading challenges. I did start one once, but that was the year I began my Masters and it quickly went out this window. However, I’ve seen a few posts about the Women Unbound challenge over the past few days and I’ve decided to take part. This year I won’t [...]
December 17, 2009 in auto/biography, feminism, fiction, history, women's history
Tagged books, feminism, reading challenge, women unbound
Tagged books, feminism, reading challenge, women unbound
Not the TV Book Group
Sun 07 Feb: Brodeck's Report - Philippe Claudel
Sun 21 Feb: The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
Sun 07 Mar: Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers
Sun 21 Mar: The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston
Sun 11 Apr: Skin Lane - Neil Bartlett
Sun 25 Apr: The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan
Sun 09 May: A Short Gentleman - Jon Canter
Sun 23 May: Fledgling - Octavia E. ButlerReading Challenge
The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist - Jill Tweedie
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Singled Out - Virginia Nicholson
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education - Jane Robinson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
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