Today's Booking Through Thursday asks:
While my town dries out of record-setting, epic flooding from Hurricane Irene, let me ask you:
What’s your book with weather events? Hurricanes? Tornadoes? Blizzards? Real? Fiction? Doesn’t matter … weather comes up a lot in books, so there’s got to be a favorite somewhere, huh?
Everytime books about extreme weather come up, the first book my mind always jumps to is The Babysitter's Club Super Special, Snowbound.
I know there are ones I liked better out there. I know I've read much better ones, but when asked questions about weather books, Snowbound is the first to come to my mind and it beats up all the other books that try to remind me of their exsistence.
Dawn has a mean left hook.
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Thursday, September 01, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Booking Through Thursday
Today's Booking Through Thursday is a must answer, even if there's only one minute left in Thursday (at least in my time zone)
Sometimes I feel like the only person I know who finds reading history fascinating. It’s so full of amazing-yet-true stories of people driven to the edge and how they reacted to it. I keep telling friends that a good history book (as opposed to some of those textbooks in school that are all lists and dates) does everything a good novel does–it grips you with real characters doing amazing things.
Am I REALLY the only person who feels this way? When is the last time you read a history book? Historical biography? You know, something that took place in the past but was REAL.
Regular readers know that I love history. It's the second largest section on my bookshelves (After fiction.) I even majored in it instead of literature. I think one of the reasons why I love studying history over literature is because history is all about the story, the who, what, where, when, and why. It isn't about the metaphor or craft which are things I enjoy analyzing, but not as much as character and plot. History is all character and plot.
So to answer the question, when was the last time I read a history book? Yesterday.
The last two books I've read were history. One, A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream will be reviewed in an upcoming issue of School Library Journal. It's a biography of a ballet dancer in post-Cultural Revolution, pre-Tian'anmen China and her experiences at the Beijing Dance Academy. The other, Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History is about the Peshtigo fire, a largely forgotten tragedy. I reviewed it yesterday.
My book I'm currently lusting after is history-- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. WWI, dissent, and England? YES PLEASE!
History is gripping and beautiful. Heartbreaking and inspiring. It is the story of us as humanity. Sometimes I marvel at the fact we survived it all, but we're still here, just making even more history.
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Sometimes I feel like the only person I know who finds reading history fascinating. It’s so full of amazing-yet-true stories of people driven to the edge and how they reacted to it. I keep telling friends that a good history book (as opposed to some of those textbooks in school that are all lists and dates) does everything a good novel does–it grips you with real characters doing amazing things.
Am I REALLY the only person who feels this way? When is the last time you read a history book? Historical biography? You know, something that took place in the past but was REAL.
Regular readers know that I love history. It's the second largest section on my bookshelves (After fiction.) I even majored in it instead of literature. I think one of the reasons why I love studying history over literature is because history is all about the story, the who, what, where, when, and why. It isn't about the metaphor or craft which are things I enjoy analyzing, but not as much as character and plot. History is all character and plot.
So to answer the question, when was the last time I read a history book? Yesterday.
The last two books I've read were history. One, A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream will be reviewed in an upcoming issue of School Library Journal. It's a biography of a ballet dancer in post-Cultural Revolution, pre-Tian'anmen China and her experiences at the Beijing Dance Academy. The other, Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History is about the Peshtigo fire, a largely forgotten tragedy. I reviewed it yesterday.
My book I'm currently lusting after is history-- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. WWI, dissent, and England? YES PLEASE!
History is gripping and beautiful. Heartbreaking and inspiring. It is the story of us as humanity. Sometimes I marvel at the fact we survived it all, but we're still here, just making even more history.
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Booking Through Thursday
This week's question is:
You’ve just had a long, hard, exhausting day, and all you want to do is curl up with something light, fun, easy, fluffy, distracting, and entertaining.
What book do you pick up?
Meg Cabot
. I self medicate with Meg Cabot books all the time.
In fact, here's my proven cure for a pick-me-up after a long, awful day.*
1. While driving home, put on the Glee soundtrack and sing along really, really loudly.
2. Come home, give puppy kisses.
3. Turn on dance music like Lady Gaga,Robyn, or Madonna.
4. Dance around the kitchen while mixing a cocktail.
5. Turn on chill music likeAdele, She and Him, or Belle and Sebastian
6. Read Meg Cabot and drink cocktail.
You'll notice Kung-fu Princess (Biblio Baby's new nickname) doesn't play a role in this. That's because this dates back from before she was around.
Book Provided by...
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
You’ve just had a long, hard, exhausting day, and all you want to do is curl up with something light, fun, easy, fluffy, distracting, and entertaining.
What book do you pick up?
Meg Cabot
. I self medicate with Meg Cabot books all the time.In fact, here's my proven cure for a pick-me-up after a long, awful day.*
1. While driving home, put on the Glee soundtrack
and sing along really, really loudly.2. Come home, give puppy kisses.
3. Turn on dance music like Lady Gaga
,Robyn, or Madonna.4. Dance around the kitchen while mixing a cocktail.
5. Turn on chill music likeAdele
, She and Him, or Belle and Sebastian6. Read Meg Cabot and drink cocktail.
You'll notice Kung-fu Princess (Biblio Baby's new nickname) doesn't play a role in this. That's because this dates back from before she was around.
Book Provided by...
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Booking Through Thursday
Today's Booking Through Thursday question asks:
Name a book (or books) from a country other than your own that you love. Or aren’t there any?
There are a million! Off the top of my head, here are a few favorites:
Harry Potter bu JK Rowling (from England)
Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel by Jaclyn Moriarty (from Australia-- I love all of her books)
The Garlic Ballads: A Novel by Mo Yan (from China-- Mo Yan is one of my favorite authors)
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (from Japan-- I like her other books, too)
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene (from France)
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
Name a book (or books) from a country other than your own that you love. Or aren’t there any?
There are a million! Off the top of my head, here are a few favorites:
Harry Potter bu JK Rowling (from England)
Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel by Jaclyn Moriarty (from Australia-- I love all of her books)
The Garlic Ballads: A Novel by Mo Yan (from China-- Mo Yan is one of my favorite authors)
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (from Japan-- I like her other books, too)
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene (from France)
Links to Amazon are an affiliate link. You can help support Biblio File by purchasing any item (not just the one linked to!) through these links. Read my full disclosure statement.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Booking Through Thursday
Today's Booking Through Thursday question asks...
Classics, because there are so many genres within classics. Romance, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, literary fiction, realistic fiction, adventure, humor... it's all there.
God* comes to you and tells you that, from this day forward, you may only read ONE type of book–one genre–period, but you get to choose what it is. Classics, Science-Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Cookbooks, History, Business … you can choose, but you only get ONE.
What genre do you pick, and why?
*Whether you believe in God or not, pretend for the purposes of this discussion that He is real.
Classics, because there are so many genres within classics. Romance, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, literary fiction, realistic fiction, adventure, humor... it's all there.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Booking Through Thursday
Today's Booking Through Thursday question is...
Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?
Well, I do believe that life is too short to read bad books. When I'm helping kids find books, I always make them check out 3. This does more than help our circ stats. I tell them "Life's too short to read bad books. Take three, because that way if you don't like one, you're not stuck with reading it."
That said... I'll sometimes put down a boring book (if it's not required reading) but I'll rarely put down a bad one. It's like really bad TV, I get sucked into the horribleness and I can't turn away. Even if a book is boring though, it's hard for me to admit that I don't want to read it and put it down. It's like being mean to the book, and you shouldn't be mean to books!
Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?
Well, I do believe that life is too short to read bad books. When I'm helping kids find books, I always make them check out 3. This does more than help our circ stats. I tell them "Life's too short to read bad books. Take three, because that way if you don't like one, you're not stuck with reading it."
That said... I'll sometimes put down a boring book (if it's not required reading) but I'll rarely put down a bad one. It's like really bad TV, I get sucked into the horribleness and I can't turn away. Even if a book is boring though, it's hard for me to admit that I don't want to read it and put it down. It's like being mean to the book, and you shouldn't be mean to books!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Booking Through Thursday
Today's Booking Through Thursday asks:
What is the saddest book you've read recently?
This was a harder one for me. The last book that made me cry was Intensely Alice, but it wasn't an overly sad book, just one part of it was. While ultimately hopeful, Wanting Mor, was much sadder on a deeper level.
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