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Very split reading personality

I guess I’m not sure if I take this as a compliment, a criticism or a cop out.

BookBrowse has a “What’s Your Reading Personality?” quiz. After answering the seven questions, here’s what I got:

Your responses showed you fitting equally into all four reading personalities:

Involved Reader: You don’t just love to read books, […]

No Opus! Not again!!

I had a feeling this was coming based on the last couple strips but Berkeley Breathed announced that, once again, Opus is leaving us. The end apparently will come in the Nov. 2 strip. Last month — on my birthday of all days — Opus was taken into custody by Homeland Security as an illegal […]

Stuck on my bookshelves

The WaPo book blog had something I thought interesting. What books remain on your shelves that you’ve never read but continue to keep even though you’ve weeded out lots of others over the years?

Underworld by Don DeLillo immediately comes to mind. It’s been on my shelves for close to a decade but I never […]

Celebrating a new hockey season — with books

October is rapidly becoming one of my favorite months. Wednesday night was the draft in the Puck Podcast keeper fantasy hockey league — which has members from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and the U.K. (I had the first draft pick and took Ovechkin.) The USHL season started Friday night. The NHL Network brought me the […]

Let’s help two South Dakota schools needing books

Through the LA Times book blog, I learned of DonorsChoose.org. It’s a site that allows you to donate money to help teachers fund class projects. The program is open to all public schools and the site currently has five South Dakota projects, two of which seek to bring books to students.

By chance, the […]