The Burton Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
Susan at Rocks n' Reads West of Mars hosts Women on Wednesday. This is a new meme to spotlight favorite FEMALE authors, as Publisher's Weekly has recently published their Best Reads of 2009, without a single female writer on their list. So now we get to give the Women a Weekly Meme! Susan says: " WOW — Women on Wednesday. Every Wednesday, write about a book you loved that’s written...
Tantrums and Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Kaylee made this list all by herself. I have only corrected spelling, added pictures and also snuck in a collection of books I think she would like. Webkinz Pet Plush – Duck Webkinz Pet Plush – Fox Disney Pixar's Toy Story Mania for Nintendo Wii Boggle iCarly for Nintendo Wii Disney Hannah Montana: The Movie DVD Sorry! Sliders Parcheesi Nintendo DSi Handheld Console System Pink Disney Wizards...
The Burton Review (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Booking Through Thursday is hosted by Deb : Today’s question was suggested by Barbara : Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Bronte, or any of the classic authors? If so, who, and why do you think so? If not, why not? What books from this era might be read 100 years from now? Some disagree as to the caliber of the above authors, and some will disagree on...
MTV Books (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Um, write a blog about motivation for starters! Procrastinate a lot! This means checking email, feeling a sudden urge to clean out a drawer or sharpener a stack of pencils. More laundry, sure, bring it on! Then after a period of time, guilt sets in and I actually miss writing. However, at that time of the day, I’m most likely tied up with carpools, homework or baby chasing. So the next time I...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Due to our readers’ violent demands (and by violent demands, we mean polite emails)—and for those of you who weren’t allowed to read Judy Blume—we’ve put together the ultimate Beverly Cleary quiz. How much do you remember about Ramona and the kids from Klickitat Street? Take the Quiz: Beverly Cleary
The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
If you grew up in the 70's or 80's, and spent a lot of time in the library or bookstores, SHELF DISCOVERY: THE TEEN CLASSICS WE NEVER STOPPED READING by Lizzie Skurnick is a must read. Skurnick, a writer for Jezebel.com where some of these reviews originally appeared, revisits all the "Young Adult" novels from the era, writing mini book reports for each. All the classics are here. From the...
The Burton Review (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Happy glorious weekend, blogger babes! (If there are any guys reading this, then I apologize, but I don't think I've got any male readers. If you are here, speak up!!) Did you know it's mid-November already? Wasn't it just June? Apparently time is flying, just in time for the holiday hustle bustle to start. With two kiddos I've got twice as much Santa shopping to do. I didn't really try too hard last...
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Despite dire advance warnings out of Seattle, last night's Literary Death Match was fun. The judges were witty (Scott Poole's reaction to one story: "It made me feel like a hobo reading Vanity Fair in a dumpster and getting a hard-on from smelling the perfume ad") and/or entertainingly wasted (Zia McCabe: props for demanding—and getting—tequila shots from the audience. And for...
Alice's CWIM Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Some Friday Afternoon Led (stats) for Your Head... File this under apropos of nothing/just for fun, but I felt the need to share my IT professional brother's latest word research here on my CWIM blog. My brother and my classic-rock-digging teenage niece were listening to Led Zeppelin in the car, he tells me, and they had their usual discussion about how a rock song can't be a true rock song without...
Dlisted (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Amy Wino used a lot of her booze fund to purchase her man-made chesticles and her pumped up lips, so she's going to get her money's worth by strutting them all over town. Last night, Wino stuffed her silicone sacks into a bra and took them out for a stroll around her old snorting grounds of Camden. Wino's new chichi balls are so powerful that they ripped through that wife beater. Or maybe her tank...
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Filed under: Woman Up “If only Judy Blume had written a book about a tall Jewish girl who had crushes on other girls.” Thus did emcee comedian and gay author Judy Gold kick off the recent National Coalition Against Censorship’s 35th anniversary gala last month at the City Winery in New York City, which feted as its [...]
Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Harper Collins has published a collection of children's book picks from over 100 actors, writers, artists, politicians, and activists. These are the books that made a difference to them, the books that changed their lives. I asked the employees at Book Soup for their favorite children's books, and these are the books we picked....some will be familiar, some have been forgotten and some are just crazy!...
Lemondrop (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Filed under: Sex , Humor , Dating & Love If you're a girl and spent any time in the library as a kid, you inevitably read some Judy Blume. (Hopefully along with "The Babysitter's Club" and "Goosebumps.") Perhaps, like me, you actually felt guilty reading some passages, or found yourself ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Good morning everyone! I hope all is well with you today. I am fantastic! I'm almost over my second ( second! ) chest cold of the fall and things are starting to require less kleenex. So that's good. My special guests today are Sarah Goodman and Jim Guthrie from Toronto. Sarah is a young filmmaker whose latest project is called When We Were Boys . A documentary set at Toronto’s Royal St. Georges...
The Pioneer Woman (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I’m on my cookbook trip right now. While I’m a little homesick, I’m loving getting to meet and lock eyes with so many of yous guys (say that with a Tony Soprano accent, please.) It’s turning out to be a rich and perspective-enlarging experience for me—so much more than sitting at a little table and scrawling my name on copies of my cookbook. But I’ll go into all...
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