(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) Today’s list: Characters after which I would name my children. Strangely enough, I’ve had this list in my head since I…
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Notable Quotables: Erma Bombeck
(Notable Quotables is a meme brought to you by the Bewitched Bookworms. Every Monday you’re invited to share a favorite quote or two from the books you’ve been reading.) As I mentioned in my debut books list, Erma Bombeck was a writer gifted the art of (occasionally snarky) observation. Today’s quotes are all by the…
Dystopian February
We’re a month into the New Year, and so far I think I’ve been doing fairly well with my 2011 blogging resolutions: participating in memes has gotten me out of my commenting shell, and I’m following my first male blogger, A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook. The one resolution I’ve been dreading is #3: read out of…
Fill in the ________.
With a few notable exceptions, I’ve always enjoyed taking tests. Multiple-choice questions are almost always easy, and writing an essays and/or term papers can be interesting (if you like the topic). But for some reason, fill in the blank questions have always been my favorite. The answers are short (one to three words), the rest…
Top 10 Debut Books
(Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Want to make your own list? Clicking the image will take you to this week’s post. Happy listing!) This week it’s all about debut novels. I know there’s lots of “firsts” coming out in 2011, but my goal was…