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Posted in Books, Weekly Events, Weekly Geeks on Aug 22nd, 2010
This week’s Weekly Geeks is about examining a book (or books) which were published in your birth decade. Tell us about a book that came out in the decade you were born which you either loved or hated. Is it relevant to today? Is it a classic, or could it be? Give us a mini-review, [...]
Posted in Books, Reading, Weekly Events, Weekly Geeks on Jul 18th, 2010
The Weekly Geeks’ topic this week is from Tara SG (25 Hour Books). She writes: In case you don’t know me, I like to make up medical sounding names for my book obsessions. For example: P.A.B.D.. I’d now like to introduce Shiny Book Syndrome. This is usually accompanied by a book hording problem yet to be [...]
Posted in Books, Personal, Weekly Events, Weekly Geeks on Jul 11th, 2010
The Weekly Geeks’ question is about book trailers: In the last year or two a new entity has arisen in the publishing world: the book trailer. Apparently every self-respecting book has to have one these days so it seemed a good time to have a chat about them. Feel free to answer as many (or [...]
Posted in Books, Weekly Geeks on May 8th, 2010
Bernadette at Reactions to Reading asks these questions at Weekly Geeks : A couple of incidents have prompted this week’s topic. I very much enjoyed the two Susan Hill novels that I’ve read and already have the next book in her series Simon Serrailler series on my audio book playlist. Then I discovered, via the author’s opinion [...]
Posted in Books, Weekly Geeks on Jul 14th, 2009
This week’s Weekly Geeks is brought to us by Terri who asks us about our world travels through books. Are you a global reader? How many countries have you “visited” in your reading? What are your favorite places or cultures to read about? Can you recommend particularly good books about certain regions, countries or continents? [...]
Posted in Challenges, Weekly Geeks on Jun 24th, 2009
This week’s Weekly Geeks topic was suggested by Sheri of A Novel Menagerie. She writes: “Reading Challenges: a help or a hurt? Do you find that the reading challenges keep you organized and goal-oriented? Or, do you find that as you near the end of a challenge that you’ve failed because you fell short of [...]
Posted in Books, Weekly Geeks on Jun 17th, 2009
Recently I’ve got behind writing reviews of books I’ve recently finished reading, so this Weekly Geeks topic is just right for me. 1. In your blog, list any books you’ve read but haven’t reviewed yet. If you’re all caught up on reviews, maybe you could try this with whatever book(s) you hope to finish this [...]
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