Bookish News I haven’t been following the world of bookish news as closely as I should this past week. A lot of my time has been devoted to writing and to the next issue of the Ottawa Arts Review. I’m also in the process of revamping OAR’s website. It’s a work in progress, but we’ll get there. …
Read MoreI’ve decided to start a new feature on Read. Write. Discuss. I recently went out of my way to acquire a hardcover first edition of a book that I haven’t even finished reading yet because I knew it was something I would want to hold on to and eventually pass down to my children and …
Read MoreIt’s been a while since I joined in the Feature & Follow Fridays, but I’m trying to get back into it. I’ve discovered some great blogs this way in the past, and hope to find more this summer. Never mind that it’s barely summer here in Canada — now is a good time to start. …
Read MoreBookish 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 MoreAt first glance, the covers in this week’s edition don’t have much in common. It’s a mixed bag of photography, paint, and illustration. What ties most of them together is that they have beautiful alternate covers for different editions. How many times has it happened that you’ve fallen in love with a cover, only to …
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 MoreI love “rewind” weeks for Top Ten Tuesday because I get to run with topics that fit my reading style. Topics about book boyfriends and fictional romance always stump me, because I don’t read a lot of romance. As you can see from the title of this post, I lean toward reading some pretty depressing …
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 …
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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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