A couple weeks ago I bought a beautiful new softcover ruled Moleskine, and wow, I love them. With this one I’ve started writing down quotes and passages — …
The Archives: Books
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1. Commonplaces
It’s almost scary how much the media influences our perspective on life. The other day, for example, I was thinking about love — how it starts, grows, and then …
Cleaning checks are tomorrow morning, and I find myself doing everything possible to procrastinate it. Heck, if I’d started a few hours ago like I planned, I could be …
You know, I have a feeling there’ll be a lot of Karamazovian posts over the next few weeks. :) Here’s one from 1.1.4, the second page of the chapter, …
When people used to ask me what my favorite book was, I wasn’t quite sure what to say, so I responded with the Chronicles of Narnia. It wasn’t until …
6. Good reading
So, I signed up on Goodreads yesterday. It’s…addicting. The site itself is so-so — the design feels a little too padded for my tastes, and it could …
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
I went to a Coptic bookbinding workshop yesterday (a pre-conference part of the A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference, which was today) and made my first …
On Tuesday we had a joint New Play Project workshop with the BYU group Write2Publish (which went really well!), and while there I found out about the upcoming Publishers Fair. …
A few bookish links:
First, Annegirl’s got a lovely post on books she’s loved. Which reminds me, I still need to write that Amor Libris book…
Second, I came across …
When I dropped out of grad school a month ago, the plan was to go into publishing (specifically typesetting/book design) and write on the side, eventually doing more writing …
So, this guy named Ammon Shea just spent a year reading the whole Oxford English Dictionary. The whole thing. He’s writing a book about it, but he’s also …
Being able to check books out for six months has had an unexpected side effect: instead of reading books, I now hoard them.
It’s not like I’ve stopped reading entirely — …
13. Fly wings
Today we have three quotes from C.S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain, a fabulous book chock-full of thought-provoking hooks like these.
You will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, …
A few cool things I’ve come across lately:
1. Melodyne’s Direct Note Access, a short video demonstrating their new technology that lets you edit the individual notes of a chord …
15. Billy Collinsed
After seeing a post a few seconds ago on The Finer Things Club about Friday’s Billy Collins reading, I realized that I totally forgot to blog about the reading! …
[Cross-posted from Mormon Renaissance. We’re trying to get the discussion going over there, so if you do comment, it’d be great if you could post your comments on …
As disciples of Christ, we talk a lot about enduring to the end and just how on earth (since heaven’s still a bit out of reach) we’re supposed to make …
18. Taking the exit
So, I, um, dropped out of grad school today.
Technically, I only e-mailed my professors today to notify them, and I won’t be calling the school till Monday to make it …
As you may have noticed in the screenshot on my last post, something new’s afoot. It’s a blog called Mormon Renaissance, and if you’re interested at all in …
Found an interesting post by Jeff Savage on the quality of LDS fiction:
I would tend to believe that in general the feeling…was that the quality of novels by most …
Chris Harrison’s Visualizing the Bible site has some fascinating graphs — Bible cross-references (it’s amazing how interconnected the books of the Bible are), a Biblical social network (ever wondered …
Not that I want to keep blogging about being sick, but since it has taken over my world for the moment, it’ll unfortunately keep cropping up until it disappears. …
Tor is giving away free ebooks (thanks to Slashdot via James):
Tor Books is launching a new site and running a campaign in which they are giving away e-books (free …
Just two little things today:
First, from NorthTemple, check out Strange Maps. Very cool. (Yes, I’m a cartophile.)
Second, I recently started using the self-checkout machines at Provo …
At the moment I feel like something Death hacked to bits with his scythe and then kicked through the streets. Nasty cough (the feds could land me in the …
26. Netboox
From Nicole Engard via Gerrit, here’s a question someone posted on a forum:
was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year …
On A Motley Vision, Anneke Majors has written the post I intended to write. :) Actually, not exactly the same, but I did plan to read Stephenie Meyer’s …
I picked up my French copy of Les Misérables on a whim just a few minutes ago, and as fate would have it, opened directly to my favorite passage. …
29. Goose girl
Last night I finished Shannon Hale’s The Goose Girl, and wow, it’s good. Spun into a novel from the Grimms’ fairy tale of the same name, Goose Girl …
Today I saw a blog post on writing a book in Google Docs. Interesting. One of the things that stuck out to me was the <div> hack …
From Fire & Knowledge, this lovely article from The Onion, headlined Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book:
Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as …
Sometime in the past year I decided to compartmentalize my reading so that I wouldn’t spend all my time on fiction. Not that there’s anything wrong with fiction — …
For the bookworms and bibliophiles among you, ChristianAudio’s free audiobook download of the month for January is Milton’s Paradise Lost. Nine hours of a British voice (Nadia …
This morning I came across an amazingly cool post on the LibraryThing blog: the group I See Dead People[’s Books] has entered all of Thomas Jefferson’s 1815 …
Out with the old…
Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year’s post and found that I …
36. The eyes have it
Time for another potpourri post.
1. Here’s a bit on eye contact from the SIRC flirting guide which puts into words something I’ve been thinking about for a while but …
Time for another update on what I’m reading. Wednesday I started reading Orson Scott Card’s Empire (which was the first book I ever bought at a grocery store — …
I was at the bookstore the other day and saw a copy of Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Look a little familiar?…
I’ve been reading some interviews with poets lately, and it’s given me an itch to read more poetry. So yesterday I picked up one of my anthologies (Immortal Poems …
Tomorrow my arm’s getting amputated.
You see, BYU library’s power outage starts first thing tomorrow morning, and it’s going to black out over half the library — everything from the main …
Ever since I heard that The Dark Is Rising was going to be made into a movie, I was of course pins and needles with excitement. Then a few …
From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK — Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy “The Lord …
The Prince Caspian trailer is out. Mmm. Now, just how many days till May 16? :)
In other news (from a rather opposite direction :)), at Christianity …
My reader’s edition of the Book of Mormon is now part of Special Collections here at the HBLL (thanks to Hilary for letting me know it had …
Looks like I get an early peek at PBS’s Christmas present to me: Masterpiece Theatre is broadcasting all six Jane Austen novels (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride …
46. Amor libris
I finished my finals last night. One semester of grad school down, three to go. But let’s not worry about the to-go part just yet — I’ve got …
It’s snowing. A lot. And I’m tucked up somewhat cozily on the fifth floor of the library, pecking away on this post as I do my darndest to …
And now, a NaBoMoReMo reading chart specifically for the Riverglen Press reader’s edition of the Book of Mormon:…
I ought to be in bed, but I couldn’t resist this. Earlier this evening my elders quorum president randomly brought over this book list (he knows I crave books …
50. Love over logic
“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?” says Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables. “It just makes me feel glad …
