Category Archives: booktalks
>To Tweet or Not to Tweet
> I am in my second year of messing with Twitter and I just can’t seem to get comfortable with it. I tweet so infrequently that I linked my Twitter to my Four Square account. Unfortunately, the only thing I … Continue reading
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>Oh Susanna: I Am Loving the Hunger Games
> Just finished book two of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Game series, Catching Fire and it had such a great cliff-hanger ending that I can not wait to get my hands on book three, Mockingjay. I am 101 on the waiting … Continue reading
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ALA 2010 Revelations: Steamy Summer City, New Murakami Book, Urban/Street Lit Fiction Nebulousness, Stolen Dreams, and More
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Filed under ALA, books, booktalks, David Mitchell, genres, Haruki Murakami, librarianship, travel, urban fiction, Washington DC
My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster: Can’t Wait For This!
This is the book video for My Fair Lazy, Jen Lancaster’s upcoming book. This book chronicles her quest for cultural enrichment. Jen Lancaster is a great writer, funny, acerbic, and a diet inspiration (Such a Pretty Fat rules). My Fair … Continue reading
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Big Sticks: Pink Saris and The White Tiger
Serendipitously, a day or so after finishing Aravind Adiga’s wonderful, Man Booker Prize-winning novel about a down-trodden young man’s path to becoming a successful entrepreneur through dubious means in contemporary India , The White Tiger, I heard a fascinating story on … Continue reading
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Big Sticks: Pink Saris and The White Tiger
Serendipitously, a day or so after finishing Aravind Adiga’s wonderful, Man Booker Prize-winning novel about a down-trodden young man’s path to becoming a successful entrepreneur through dubious means in contemporary India , The White Tiger, I heard a fascinating story on … Continue reading
Filed under booktalks, culture stuff, India, Man Booker Prize, social justice
Freedom to Savor the Salacious and Sample the Staid
I went to see my cousin’s CofC class production of the play, Quills. The play is about the Marquis de Sade and is quite provocative. It was made into a movie starring Geoffrey Rush. It brought to mind discussions I had in library … Continue reading
Filed under booktalks, censorship, France, freedom, Marquis de Sade, philosophy
Freedom to Savor the Salacious and Sample the Staid
I went to see my cousin’s CofC class production of the play, Quills. The play is about the Marquis de Sade and is quite provocative. It was made into a movie starring Geoffrey Rush. It brought to mind discussions I had in library … Continue reading
Filed under booktalks, censorship, France, freedom, Marquis de Sade, philosophy
Random Reading: Bookmarks and Books
While reading a great article in the Charleston City Paper (I really have to give props to their Web 2.0 skillz) I found a new bookmarking site, Mister Wong. It appears to be a multi lingual version of Del.icio.us, which I … Continue reading
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Random Reading: Bookmarks and Books
While reading a great article in the Charleston City Paper (I really have to give props to their Web 2.0 skillz) I found a new bookmarking site, Mister Wong. It appears to be a multi lingual version of Del.icio.us, which I … Continue reading
Filed under blogging, booktalks, Mister Wong, social networking, tags
