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There were tons more books at great prices at both sites, but here are a few that have interested me today: Amazon: The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke (unabridged audio CD) $5.99 B & N (only til the 29th): Bonnie at Bonnie’s Books has tagged me with the Blogging Tips Meme. Here it is: -Start Copy- It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.) Add the next number (1. 2. 3. 4. 5., etc.) and write your own blogging tip for other bloggers. Try to make your tip general. After that, tag 10 other people. Link love some friends! Just think – if 10 people start this and the 10 people pass it on to another 10 people, you have 100 links already! 1. Look, read, and learn. **** http://www.neonscent.com/ 2. Be EXCELLENT to each other. *** http://www.bushmackel.com/ 3. Don’t let money change ya! * http://www.therandomforest.info/ 4. Always reply to your comments. ****** http://chattiekat.com/ 5. Link liberally — it keeps you and your friends afloat in the Sea of Technorati. ** http://chipsquips.com/ 6. Don’t give up – persistence is fertile. ** http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/ 7. Give link credit where credit is due. **** http://www.sfsignal.com/ 8. Pictures say a thousand words and can usually add to any post. *** http://scifichick.com/ 9. Visit all the bloggers that leave comments for you – it’s nice to know who is reading! ** http://stephaniesbooks.blogspot.com/ 10. Thrown in something humorous occasionally, to keep things fun. * http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/ 11. Do at least a few of the blogging quizzes available. It lets people know a little more about you. http://3m3am.wordpress.com -End Copy- If you’re reading this and want to participate, consider yourself tagged! Kimmie has nominated me for the Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award. Thanks so much!!
It’s always hard to nominate others because there are SO MANY blogs that I love! Maybe I’ll just set up some parameters that will make anyone reading this eligible. I nominate you if: 1. You’ve completed any reading challenge this year. That’s it. Those are the qualifications. If you meet them, you are a Rockin’ Girl Blogger!
2007, 323 pp. This book has top ten book lists for 125 writers. Zane then scored these selections with a #1 pick getting 10 points and a #10 pick getting 1 point to come up with an overall list. The top ten works are the following:
I find it interesting that the breakdown according to nationality was 40% Russian, 20% British, 20% American, and 20% French. I LOVE Russian lit-especially Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. I have read the titles in bold and would like to read the other books on the list in the following order: Middlemarch, War and Peace, The Stories of Anton Chekov, Lolita, and then In Search of Lost Time. I want to read Middlemarch in 2008 and perhaps War and Peace as well. There were various other top ten lists in the back with the following as the #1 pick for each: #1 work of the 20th century: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov He also lists all 544 books mentioned by the writers in point order with a summary for each. I did glean some titles for my TBR pile that I’ll list here: The Golden Argosy edited by Van H. Carmell I like lists of books so you may be wondering why only a 3.5 rating. I just really liked The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop and The King’s English so much better. Also, out of the 125 authors that participated, I had only heard of 55 of them. As I read through the selections, I found that other than the obvious classics I haven’t read and the above titles, I just wasn’t interested in many of them. Doom and gloom and s*x and violence. I don’t have to have a happy ending to enjoy a book, but I do want to feel something other than utter hopelessness.
My final five selections: 1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (also for the NYT Notable Book Challenge) This is an ongoing challenge that will take years! I finally have 80 potential countries listed. That was a stretch, let me tell you. I didn’t know Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland were still each individual nations. American ignorance at its finest. Here’s my tentative, subject to numerous changes, list: |
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