Well — I’d been procrastinating on talking about one of my favorite part of my vacation Down The Shore which was getting in a lot of reading. I’d been procrastinating because I’d hoped that Vox would have a ready fix for that book-loading breakdown that happened last month. Anyway, before they got too stale in…
Follow-up to last week’s question: Do you keep all your unread books together, like books in a waiting room? Or are they scattered throughout your shelves, mingling like party-goers waiting for the host to come along? I haven't done a BTT for a while, and this seemed like a pretty good one. To answer the…
Kelly had a good meme this weekend and I thought I'd give it a shot. 1) What author do you own the most books by? That’s a good question and I’m not sure of the answer. Probably Joyce Carol Oates. Stephen King is probably second. 2) What book do you own the most copies of?…
A good meme for BTT today: What was the last book you bought? “The Eight” by Katherine Neville and “Lisey’s Story” by Stephen King Name a book you have read MORE than once Hrrmm… there’s been several, but one book I’ve read more than twice is “The Illearth War” by Stephen R. Donaldson. Maybe the…
So, one of the first “real” books I read as a teenager was “The Stand” by Stephen King. The idea of a de-populated America where good and evil clashed was an amazing world that was both repulsive and alluring simultaneously. Having grown up in the Cold War Mutually-Assured-Destruction days of the 1970s, a world where…
Coming back on the flight from Dulles to San Diego on New Year's Day, I took out my trusty moleskine notebook and began jotting down ideas for bloggable things. It's a long flight — the first thing was yesterday's post about the differences in roads and driving on the East and West Coasts, which seemed…
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