Thursday, March 14, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Eleven Books I Can't Wait to Read This Spring
The Dark
written by Lemony Snicket and illustrated by Jon Klassen
Yes! Can't wait to read!
Take Me to Your BBQ
Aliens request they be taken to a BBQ.
As well they should.
Exclamation Mark
Just bought this at last week's book fair!
My favorite mark of punctuation!
Rosie's Magic Horse
written by Russell Hoban
and illustrated by Quentin Blake
Win-win combo.
Red Hat
by Lita Judge
Red Wagon is a hit with my kiddos at school.
Maya Was Grumpy
New book from Flashlight Press.
A Long Way Away by Frank Viva
Hmmm. A "two-way story" sounds intriguing.
Nighty Night, Little Green Monster
by Ed Emberley
Go Away, Big Green Monster is a big favorite at my school library.
America the Beautiful:
Together We Stand
Ten illustrators look at one song.
Ball by Mary Sullivan
How to Be a Cat by Nikki McClure
Secretly we all want to be cats, I think.
Or dogs. Maybe some people want to be dogs.
Aliens request they be taken to a BBQ.
As well they should.
Exclamation Mark
Just bought this at last week's book fair!
My favorite mark of punctuation!
Rosie's Magic Horse
written by Russell Hoban
and illustrated by Quentin Blake
Win-win combo.
Red Hat
by Lita Judge
Red Wagon is a hit with my kiddos at school.
Maya Was Grumpy
New book from Flashlight Press.
A Long Way Away by Frank Viva
Hmmm. A "two-way story" sounds intriguing.
Nighty Night, Little Green Monster
by Ed Emberley
Go Away, Big Green Monster is a big favorite at my school library.
America the Beautiful:
Together We Stand
Ten illustrators look at one song.
Ball by Mary Sullivan
How to Be a Cat by Nikki McClure
Secretly we all want to be cats, I think.
Or dogs. Maybe some people want to be dogs.
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!
Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.
Monday, March 11, 2013
More B̶a̶t̶h̶s̶ Reading, Less T̶a̶l̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ Acquiring
Maira Kalman: "I have always loved buying books, and I often say to myself, 'I won't buy any books this week.' Then, the next thing I know, I'm running over to twelve bookstores and frantically buying books as if I'm deprived."
I've been reading this book this week:
Are you a reader of Nick Hornby's monthly column in the Believer? Have you read More Baths or any of the other books-from-columns Nick Hornby has assembled? If so, you will be familiar with the format I'm using for this week's It's Monday! post (below).
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Okay, it's pretty clear that I'm having trouble with my Books Acquired/Books Read ratios.
Any suggestions, folks?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
No Word for It
My niece wanders off the path at Versailles.
What word do we have to describe this?
Wabi-Sabi (Japanese)
A way of living that finds beauty in the imperfect.
Verschlimmbesserung (German)
Improvement that makes things worse.
Taarradhin (Arabic)
A way of resolving a problem without anyone losing.
Tatemae and Honne (Japanese)
What you pretend to believe. And what you actually believe.
Schadenfreude (German)
The feeling of pleasure derived from seeing another's misfortune.
Maya (Sanskrit)
Belief that the symbol of a thing is the same as the thing itself.
Wei-su-wei (Chinese)
Conscious nonaction.
Bricoleur (French)
Someone who starts building something with no clear plan.
Tsundoku (Japanese)
The act of leaving a book unread after buying it, usually by adding it to a pile of other unread books.
Top Ten Series I'd Like To Read
I'm not one for traditional series. In fact, I usually read the first book in the series and that's as far as I get. It was only because of extreme pressure from my fifth and sixth graders that I ever read past book one in the Harry Potter series. I know, I know. It's odd.
So here's all I could come up with when challenged to list the top ten series I'd like to read:
If only I could figure out what order to read these in, I'd be on my way.
15 classics, with illustrations and annotations
100 neglected fiction and nonfiction books of mid-twentieth century writers (mostly women)
I've actually read four or five of these, and I might like to read more.
I read book one but I haven't decided if I want to keep reading.
What series would you like to read? Any suggestions for me?
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!
Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
In the Kroger Parking Lot
January 2013
To participate in the Saturday Snapshot meme
post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken
then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky at At Home With Books.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Yet Another It's Monday! What Are You Reading?!
What I Reviewed Last Week 
Quiet by Susan Cain
Shhh! Hey, c’mere. I know, I know, I’m whispering,
but you have to when you are talking about a book like this.
Quiet. It's called...more
 Don’t you love books about books? I do. Books about books is my favorite genre. I love reading about reading...more  Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day by Doug Mack and her only guide was the now infamous Europe on $5 a Day. Mack runs across a copy of this classic travel guide and sets off...more  Scent of Darkness by Margot Berwin I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book when it arrived on my doorstep some weeks back. I was worried...more  The Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee by Carolyn Brown Do we have a name for the genre this book falls into? Women’s Fiction, but that is really too broad. How about Women’s Fiction About Women Who Join Clubs Together and Meet to Try to Figure Out Why Their Marriages Failed and Why Their Kids Are Troubled? Yes. That might cover it. And we love these stories, whatever the name of their genre...more  Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein Daniel Klein is getting on in years. He’s come to that time in life when you are very, very clear about what’s small stuff and what’s not. He decides to spend some time on a Greek island thinking a little and writing a little about what should matter to us in our last years...more  The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate What do you do if you are a gorilla and you live in a cramped cage at a mall? Ivan the gorilla has befriended a couple of elephants and taken up drawing. And this is Ivan’s story...more  There's No One I Love Like You by Jutta Langreuter Ever want to just leave your mom and dad and find a new home with new parents? That’s what Little Bunny did. He was fed up...more  Lessons in French by Hilary Reyl If you throw Paris or France in a title, you can know that I will probably seek this book out and give it a read. And I will probably like it, no matter how it's written. I just like reading about Paris. Happily...more |
What Arrived Last Week
Life After Life by Jill McCorkle
The 100-Year-Old Man
Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
A Free Man:
A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
by Aman Sethi
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What I'm Reading Now   A Canticle for Leibowitz Tales of Old-Time Texas by Walter M. Miller, Jr. by J. Frank Dobie   The Coral Island The Changeover by R. M. Ballantyne by Margaret Mahy |
What are you reading today?!
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!
I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.
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