What's your all time favortie sexytime song? Answer h...
Q&A with Robin Spano
An interview with the author of Dead Politician Society (read more)
The September-October Update
A sad reading turnout, & setting goals for this month. (read more)
Random Blog: Highlights
A nonsensical post on something trivial. (read more)
Q&A with Randa Jarrar
An interview with the author of A Map of Home (read more)
Highlights, or this is just something trivial, but you can read it anyway.
Everybody's got issues. Some people have issues with their morning coffee, dating guys who smoke, Barack Obama, and using condoms. Other people have problems with commitment, finding the right job, or Chuck Norris. I've got issues with fish (which I will only eat if I'm really, really hungry and have got nothing else; this poses a problem for when those 'if you were trapped in an island' survival scenarios actually happen), 2012 (because everybody keeps saying the world will end then, which brings up question of me ever being able to graduate from college, which makes for a very frustrated Kulot),...
The September-October book piles, aka I need a new reading strategy.
So I pretty much bummed around the house the entire month of September... which really isn't that big of a deal, considering the fact that it's what I've been doing for the last three months. What's surprising, though, is the dismal number of books I've read the previous month - four novels, of which I'm gonna cheat with and say I read one per week.
It's a bit of a let-down, really; this abysmal reading turnout has prompted me to ask the quintessential question for every bum out there: I have all the free time in the world, yet not enough time to do the stuff I wanna do. Where has my time...
Author Q&A: Randa Jarrar
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randa Jarrar grew up in Kuwait and moved back to the United States after the first Gulf War. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Chapters, Guernica, The Oxford American, The New York Times Magazine, The Utne Reader, and The Progressive. She has received residencies from Hedgebrook and the Eastern Frontier and was chosen to take part in Beirut39, which celebrates the 39 most gifted writers of Arab origin under the age of 40. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan, where A Map of Home won a Hopwood Award. The book also won an Arab-American Book Award, and was named...
Author Q&A: Robin Spano
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robin Spano grew up in downtown Toronto, Canada and was a physics major in New Brunswick before she dropped out to travel North America on her motorcycle - a 1987 Virago she bought with her waitressing tips when she was 21. She loves to explore the world on her boat or motorcycle, and traveling to new places with her husband. A full-time writer, she is currently working on the second book of her Clare Vengel series.
THE BOOK BASICS A book you think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime:
Eat, Pray, Love. It made me feel strong; it reminded me...
Review: Dead Politician Society by Robin Spano
Dead Politician Society: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel by Robin Spano
ISBN 1550229427 (ISBN13 9781550229424), ECW Press ☞ [buy the book]
From the back:
The mayor falls down dead in the middle of a speech, and a university secret society promptly claims credit for the murder.
Clare Vengel is given her first undercover assignment: to pose as a student and penetrate the society. She’s a mechanic in her spare time, and thinks book smarts are for people who can’t handle the real world. Instead of infiltrating the club, she alienates a popular professor, and quickly loses the respect of police superiors.
Another...
I think I'm ready, ready for it. [updated]
Earlier this week I published my first post, which was actually just an excuse to brag about my recent book acquisitions (hehe). I noticed that my blog was a tad too unfriendly on the eyes, so I decided to do a total blog overhaul. Two three days later1, the blog's better-looking, and my mother has threatened to have the internet connection cut off if she catches me on the PC at four in the morning again. I'm still working on some minor modifications, but so far everything's working. I'm so proud, I forgave myself for missing out on two days of my Insanity and Hip Hop Abs workouts.
I've been busy...
My steadily-increasing book backlog will be the death of me.
Yesterday, Dad came home bearing two packages he picked up from the post office: hardcover copies of Cranioklepty by Colin Dickey and 31 Hours by Masha Hamilton, and Vickie Weaver's Billie Girl in paperback (care of Unbridled Books and Leapfrog Press, respectively). Later that afternoon, my review copy of Emma Donoghue's Room from Hachette Book Group arrived. To say that I was happy yesterday is quite an understatement.
Besides that, there's also a bunch of e-galleys I downloaded from Net Galley. Oh, Net Galley is just wonderful; I have to thank it for introducing me to Adobe Digital Editions...
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