Commonplace Post (13)

 Posted by Anastasia on December 3, 2011  5 Responses »
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30 Things To Do Before The Age of 30 @ Fabulously Broke in the City

On Authors Reviewing Books @ Presenting Lenore

A look at Goodreads ads (long) @ Lisa Shroeder’s blog

Judy Blume: Often Banned, But Widely Beloved @ NPR

Help Needed for the Sonoma County Free Bookmobile:

We’ve got this really cool thing in Sonoma County where this guy, Glen, gives away books. HE GIVES AWAY BOOKS. He started the Sonoma County Free Bookmobile with a trailer pulled by a Chevy Suburban. He did that for a year and a half. He would have to “lug carts from the back of the trailer to allow folks to peruse titles.” About three weekends a month, he and a volunteer, usually one of his children, would drive the backroads of Sonoma County, “stopping at senior centers, low-income apartment complexes and other under-served locations to give away donated books.”

Has book blogging hit the wall? William Morrow’s blogger notice @ Jacket Copy

Jack Heath spent a year reading books by women @ LiteraryMinded

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Out Soon (Dec. 2011)

 Posted by Anastasia on December 2, 2011  4 Responses »
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Argh! I knew I forgot to do something last week. Okay, so: here are some books that’re coming out this month that look REALLY COOL. Continue reading »

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Happy December, everyone! I hope this last month of the year will be happy and exciting and full of good stuff for you. I’ll be moving January 1st, so I’ve got a lot of packing to do between then and now. I’ve already boxed up almost all my paper books (I’m keeping one or two out to read during the trip) so I’ve been reading a lot of ebooks lately. Luckily the Singapore Public Library has a pretty hefty collection of ebooks, including YA books! Which is what I’ve been craving lately. I’ve also been requesting a few review books through NetGalley. Yay!

The book: I’ve been wanting to read the Gemma Doyle books for a while, and so when I saw that the SPL had the first book available I jumped on it. So far, three chapters in, it’s pretty freakin’ exciting. I have a feeling Gemma is one of those “modern girl in a historical world” sort of characters, which is disappointing but not necessarily off-putting. The first chapter gave me great hope that maybe her romantic interest will be a non-white person! Which would be amazing! But I don’t think that’ll be happening (not least because he might be a baddie). Boo.

The tea: Since I’m moving at the beginning of January I’m a bit worried about how I should pack all my teas with me, or if I even should. I don’t have much left– just Christmas teas and some old Stash teas that’ve been lurking at the back of my cabinet. I don’t particularly want to drink any of them, but since it’s the Christmas season at least drinking the Christmas teas will be festive or something.

Maybe I should do a giveaway?

Do they go together? Eh, not particularly. Gemma’s in England now, which means basically all English-y teas go with the book now. But I think that perhaps it’d be more interesting to match the book with an Indian tea, don’t you think? I don’t have any like that, though. Maybe the Holiday Chai would work best?

Other tea drinkers

Leave a link to your TT post in the comments and I’ll add you to the tea drinkers list!

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Monthly Review (November 2011)

 Posted by Anastasia on December 1, 2011  2 Responses »
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Girl with Book and Bench-Sitters in Fountain Square 07/1973

Thinking Back

I started off November with a clear purpose: to read at least one book a day for the whole month. Well, I didn’t end up doing that, but I DID read a lot more books this month than I thought I would!

Some other exciting things happened, too. It was my third blogoversary this month! I’ve been blogging for three years now; can you believe it? I also joined the Singapore National Library, which means I can check out lots of awesome ebooks (I’ll be writing a post about the SNL next week). I opened sign-ups for the Book Bloggers Holiday Card Exchange (emails will be going out on Saturday!). I got a set date on when we’re moving out of Albuquerque to SoCal! I got all caught up on my reviews. And I think I’ve pretty much finalized my blogging goals for 2012. Continue reading »

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