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Booking Through Thursday: Symbolism — or not

My husband is not an avid reader, and he used to get very frustrated in college when teachers would insist discussing symbolism in a literary work when there didn’t seem to him to be any. He felt that writers often just wrote the story for the story’s sake and other people read symbolism into […]

Musing Mondays: Early favorites

Coming towards the end of April, we’re a third of the way through the way through the year. What’s the favourite book you’ve read so far in 2009? What about your least favourite?

I haven’t done a lot of book memes lately because they either were on things I’d previously written about or just […]

Booking Through Thursday: Order in the shelves

How do you arrange your books on your shelves? Is it by author, by genre, or you just put it where it falls on?

Okay, I’m thinking answering this may indicate a degree of anal retentiveness or, perhaps, even OCD.

The first case of my main bookshelves contains autographed or collectible works, the […]

Booking Through Thursday: Author Blogs

Do you read any author’s blogs? If so, are you looking for information on their next project? On the author personally? Something else?

I currently subscribe to the blogs of four authors in my RSS reader, three of them science fiction writers. While it is intriguing to hear what the authors are working on, […]

Musing Mondays: Bookstores

How do you choose what to buy from your local bookstore? Do you have a list, or just browse? What is the selection in your book store like? Do you find what you’re looking for? Do you feel pressured to buy the kind of books the store makes prominent?

I do both, although I […]