Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Lorem Ipsum Bookstore
Lorem Ipsum Bookstore needs help, if you’re in the Boston area, help em out:
Help Lorem Ipsum Out
I’ve never been to that bookstore personally, since Inman Square is a drive and Porter Square books is really close to my place, but hey, Inman has Christina’s Ice-cream, so I’ll try and stop by Lorem Ipsum this weekend [...]
Shorted
Been reading Neil Gaiman’s M Is For Magic lately, it’s another one of his short story collections. Enjoying it so far, but the entire book is going by pretty fast.
You know what I love about short stories? The ability to just sit down, spend a little time, and go through an entire journey from start [...]
In: Books · Tagged with: short stories
Hug09
The 2009 Hugo Awards were announced recently, Neil Gaiman got best novel for The Graveyard Book! He’s my favorite author, but I still haven’t read that book, yeah, sad, I know. I’m trying to catch up on his short story collections first, plus I’m kind of procrastinating on reading it too, just because that’s the [...]
In: Books · Tagged with: cory doctorow, goodreads, hugo, librarything, neil gaiman
World Book Day Is Nigh!
World Book Day is coming on April 23rd and I appropriately came across this quote today:
Teenagers, I would argue, are actually very good at this–which is precisely why so many of them count both Twilight and The Catcher in the Rye among their favorite books. They are able to read broadly and without the built-in [...]
In: Books · Tagged with: holiday, quote, teenagers
Re-Kindle
I think I may be done with my bookshelf tour, kind of. So since my book-reading phase restarted around… Mid-Feb? I’ve finished four books, which I’d say is pretty good for me. I’ve got four more unread on my shelf that I didn’t previously count, but for a good reason, and they still don’t count [...]
In: Books, Tech · Tagged with: kindle
Kindling
Got my Kindle 2 in today. Now to get some reading going on.
I read some stats the other day that said that those trashy novel with Fabios on the cover sell like crazy in eBook format. Makes sense, people get embarrassed reading that crap, but with an eBook reader, no problemo. I then checked the [...]
In: Books, Tech · Tagged with: kindle
Booked Up
I’m on a book reading tour, the tour being of my bookshelf. I’ve been buying books willy nilly (yes, I just used that word) and they’ve been sitting on the bookshelf all this time. Well the queue is long enough, it stops here!
Taking the three stops to and from work isn’t that long of a [...]
Little, Big… August
For some reason I asked myself earlier in the day, what could be the worst curse one can have? Midas came to mind, as did Sisyphus, but as I looked over my bedside table, I settled on a singular answer for today… August from John Crowley’s Little, Big.
Why? August had made a trade, a [...]
In: Books, General · Tagged with: curse, mythology
Finally!
So how did I spend my Saturday and Sunday? Quite nicely, I told some friends I had some plans and couldn’t hang out with them (the truth it was) and continued to start and finish (literally 10 minutes ago) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Only took about a year, literally, I bought [...]
Heavy Is The Heart That Is Ill
I sit here at work holding a cup of green tea in one hand, typing with the other, and all the while trying to get lost in some music. My body may be on this world, but it did an exceptional job of fooling me a few times during my walk downstairs as I [...]