Bookish News Last week I made a personal resolution to comment on more blogs, and I actually followed through. I stumbled across some lovely blog designs that I never knew were out there because I mainly view posts in feed-reader apps that strip styling. Makes me wish I knew more about HTML and CSS. And …
Read MoreI know, I know, I didn’t do a Sunday Digest post last week. Nothing much happened, so I couldn’t justify writing a post about… well, nothing. But lots happened this week, so here we go. Bookish News I found out (late, as per standard) that The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is being made into a movie. …
Read MoreBookish News I didn’t delve too deeply into the world of publishing and blogging this week. Writing took up a big chunk of my time. I was feeling inspired and ran with it, letting everything else fall by the wayside. Hence why I’m behind on reading, and feel like I’ve been living under a rock …
Read MoreBookish News For some reason, Riffle Books is still in beta, and this saddens me because despite my best efforts, I wasn’t invited to be a beta user. It seems like this site is never going to get off the ground. Last year it looked like it was going to be the next big thing …
Read MoreBookish News Amazon has taken over Goodreads. When I heard this my heart sank. The thing I loved about Goodreads was that it was independent of any particular retailer, with links to each book on Indiebound, B&N, Amazon, Kobo, etc. I think that now that it’s owned by Amazon, it’ll become more like Shelfari, which …
Read MoreIt’s been a big week for books in my house. I found out that the hilarious science writer Mary Roach is publishing another book, Gulp, about the science of human digestion. This is the same author who wrote about what happens to bodies after death in Stiff. She’s great at blending weird science with light …
Read MoreI made the mistake of visiting some bookstores this month, and although I only bought one book (I restrained myself), I did request a lot of books that looked interesting from the library. This week I received one book from Sourcebooks Landmark, via NetGalley: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little …
Read MoreI know, the blog has been quiet for too long. But I have a good excuse — I was traveling. I finally saw California! And I visited two bookstores while I was there, of course. I kind of sort of maybe broke my resolution not to buy any more books this year… oops. Being away …
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I didn’t think I’d be doing one of these this year because of my resolution to stick to my existing TBR pile, but this is a book I just had to share with everyone. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional …
Read MoreThis might be the last IMM post I do for a while. I’m being very strict with myself when it comes to acquiring new books and requesting ARCs, since my TBR pile is getting out of control. I’ve accepted the fact that I can no longer go on gathering books, not having enough time to …
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There are few books in my 2013 TBR pile that I'm going to read slowly, on an ongoing basis because frankly they terrify me. They're thick books about heavy subjects, and the only way I can bear to digest them is to read them slowly.
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