Category Archives: Books Read 2006

>To Another Year of Reading and Blogging….(with Graphs for Emily)

Posted on January 1, 2007 by

>Blogging review:I started 2006 by creating this blog, not having a clue how long I would maintain it or if anyone would ever read it. I didn’t know whether I would have much to say. I wondered if I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Books Read 2006, Reading | 10 Comments

>Favorites of 2006: Survey Results

Posted on December 30, 2006 by

>My First Annual Favorites Survey of 2006. 16 people completed the survey (12 US, 4 international). Here are the results. Only unique responses are listed; if more than one person referenced the same work, the number at the end indicates … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Memes and Challenges, Reading | 9 Comments

>Favorites of 2006 Survey, new blogger, and other things….

Posted on December 26, 2006 by

>Recently, I invited readers to complete a survey on their favorite books and blogs of 2006. There is still time if you would like to participate. I am extending the survey deadline until 6 pm Pacific time tomorrow 12/27. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Books Read 2006, Reading | 6 Comments

>Breathing Space

Posted on December 3, 2006 by

> My office is located in one of the most beautiful office parks (an oxymoron if ever there was one) that I’ve ever seen. Lots of green grass and trees. Two lakes at the edge; just beyond, a river. Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Culture, Nonfiction, Photo, Politics, Religion and Spirituality | 2 Comments

>Book Review: Hell and High Water

Posted on December 2, 2006 by

>Hell and High Water: Global Warming — The Solution and Politics — And What we Can Do Joseph Romm. William Morrow, 2007. I so wanted to give this book a hearty recommendation. Its topic is one that I am very … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Nature and Ecology, Nonfiction, Politics, Review, Science and Technology | 2 Comments

>Guess the book (I can never play by the rules even when I try….)

Posted on October 27, 2006 by

>Dorothy did this meme today & since I had just finished cataloging my newly acquired books into LibraryThing and they were sitting nearby the keyboard, I had to do this. And I hated the results on page 123, but here … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Memes and Challenges, Poetry, Poetry Thursday | 5 Comments

>Fear Stretched Thin: Some initial thoughts about the horror genre in fiction

Posted on September 24, 2006 by

>”It’s the other side” I had corrected my friend a few days earlier, not the “wrong” side of the road. But, as I rounded the bend and saw that the car coming towards me on the narrow Welsh road was … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Fiction, Horror, RIP Challenge, Travel | 5 Comments

>Readers and Writers as Translators

Posted on July 21, 2006 by

>I started to post the following excerpt about translations almost a month ago, but never finished it. Originally, I thought it relevant to the discussion at the Reading War and Peace blog on which translation of Tolstoy’s novel was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Reading | 2 Comments

>Travel guides and travelogues

Posted on July 19, 2006 by

>Yesterday, Danielle at A Work In Progress and Dorothy at Of books and bicycles wrote about the nature of the essay as compared to other genres of writing. While I had been not been thinking about essays, I had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Travel | 5 Comments

>Reconsidering an ‘abandoned’ author

Posted on June 29, 2006 by

>A few weeks ago, I was reading comments on a post of Susan Hill’s regarding books one can’t finish. Like Susan, I have such a list; sometimes it seems longer than the list of books I’ve read. And despite making … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Read 2006, Fiction, Language, Reading, Writing | 3 Comments