Jan 25 2009
Happy dance through the book blogosphere
It’s Sunday! So what have my bookish friends been up to this past week?
Well, Nicola at Alpha Heroes has had it up to here with, as she puts it, “the profoundly horrible things that Our Hero has had to rise above to become The Man He Is Today.” She’d really like some suggestions for reading “some fluff that’s ACTUALLY fluffy.” So if you have any ideas, pop over and suggest a book.
Hopeinbrazil at Worthwhile Books discusses poetry and, to my excitement, recommends the Classic Poetry Aloud site, where a narrator reads, well, classic poetry. Out loud. She recommends the site for people who aren’t wild about poetry but might enjoy it more if they can hear it read aloud than if they see the stark words on the page. I love a lot of poetry, but am still pretty limited, so I’m going to take advantage of that site!
Flit, at Flitting on Fiction, is reading a romance novel by Tuesday afternoon — because it’s the reading homework for one of her university courses. Really! (To which the rest of the world nods knowingly and responds, “Riiiiight.”) If you have a gander at her reading list just for a single week, your eyes will fall out of your head.
Melanie at The Indextrious Reader has lots of good stuff this week. One thing that caught my eye instantly was her review of the book Wild Nights! Because immediately I thought of Emily Dickenson’s poem with that phrase in it. And sure enough, the book focuses on the final days of five iconic American writers: Dickinson, Poe, Twain, James, and Hemingway. Then, if you go to her post before that one, you see something wonderful: a link to The Guardian’s list of 1000 novels everyone must read.
Oh boy. Like I’m not already far behind on my reading…
Lisa at Minds Alive on the Shelves will be having a guest post from Emily Bryan, the author of Vexing Viscount. If you’re a romance fan, stop by there on January 29th (Thursday), and leave a comment, because Emily will be giving a free copy of the book to one of the commenters that day. Good luck!
Weekly Geeks propose an assignment this week (you have till Friday!) to choose two of the four questions about classical literature, and write about or perform the task in them. I must look more closely and decide. They talk about classical literature as anything written more than 100 years ago. But of course, my first thought is, oh, Herodotus. 
So I’ll have to have a closer look at the questions and see if I can do something.
And those are some of the highlights in the wide, wonderful world of book blogging this week. Have fun browsing.
And! A shoutout about the widget in my left margin, for Herebereviews.com. Remember to check it to see if any books have come up that you think would be interesting, and go read the review.
Meanwhile, I must get started on those 1000 books.
