This week Booking Through Thursday asks “What is the funniest book you’ve read recently?”
The funniest book I’ve read recently is the book I’m reading currently. It’s called To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I’ll post a link to the review once I’ve finished reading it!
Archive > July 2009
Booking Through Thursday
Weekly Geeks
Here’s the assignment:
1. Go to Creativity Tools’ random word generator.
2. Get yourself a random word. Write it down. Then click “new word” to get yourself two more random words, and write them down, too. You should have three words written down.
3. Now find the random sentence generator and get yourself a sentence, write it down [...]
Book Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Read for: Obris Terrarum Challenge and 1% Well Read Challenge
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to read this book! It was a slow read, but for the most part, I couldn’t put it down. The story is told by serveral different narrators and each narrator had his/her [...]
Book Review: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
I just finished reading this with my six-year old and we really enjoyed it. Afterwards we watched the movie and they were quite different. I actually liked the book a lot better than the movie.
Despereaux is an unusual mouse who instead of nibbling on books, like he’s supposed to, [...]
Booking Through Thursday
This week Booking Through Thursday asks:
Which do you prefer? (Quick answers–we’ll do more detail at some later date)
Reading something frivolous? Or something serious?
Paperbacks? Or hardcovers?
Fiction? Or Nonfiction?
Poetry? Or Prose?
Biographies? Or Autobiographies?
History? Or Historical Fiction?
Series? Or Stand-alones?
Classics? Or best-sellers?
Lurid, fruity prose? Or straight-forward, basic prose?
Plots? Or Stream-of-Consciousness?
Long books? Or Short?
Illustrated? Or Non-illustrated?
Borrowed? Or Owned?
New? Or Used?
(Yes, [...]
Book Blogger Appreciation Week
Copied from the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Blog:
Last year over 400 blogs came together to celebrate the art of book blogging during the first ever Book Blogger Appreciation Week! The second annual Book Blogger Appreciation Week will be taking place September 14-18.
WHO Anyone who blogs about books is invited to participate. In fact, we [...]
Book Review: Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
I don’t even know how to start to summarize this book. A young man, Tristran and the young lady he is in love with are out walking one night when they see a shooting star. She tells him that if he finds the star and brings it back to her, she will [...]
Weekly Geeks: Movie Time!
This week we are asked “what are some of your favorite movie adaptations of books? Include trailers or scenes from Youtube if you’d like. Also along with that question, or instead of that question, what book or series would you like to see be made into a movie or movies? Tell us why you think [...]
Book Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Short and sweet…except not really sweet in the traditional sense! This one was great, although I liked The Graveyard Book better.
Coraline, for those of you that don’t know, is an average little girl, a little bored with the summer holidays and looking for some excitement. She goes through a mysterious door in [...]
Weekly Geeks: Quiz Time Answers
1. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (I knew this one would be a tough one!)
4. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
5. Treasure Island by Robert Loius Stevenson
6. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
8. Ender’s Game by [...]
