BOOKISHGAL

Another pleasant Sunday, to catch up with what my bookish friends have been up to this past week. I hope everyone’s enjoyed their weekend so far.

Flitting on Fiction has discovered the Canadian author, Jane Urquhart , and now makes me regret that I haven’t yet done the same. But keep reading to previous posts for the week, and you’ll find some fascinating discussions, such as the one where Flit wonders who among her readers re-reads their books? Since I’m a major re-reader, of course I had to post a comment.

Sandra at Fresh Ink Books describes her Library Loot — the books she got out of the library recently — and now I think maybe I should head to the library myself and check out some Jane Urquhart books. Nice timely reminder for me!

Lisa at Minds Alive on the Shelves is having her time consumed by work lately, but she did manage to do another “Wondrous Words Wednesday” post (that new meme that some of us have started participating in). One of her new words: Callypigian. Which contrasts with Steatopygian. And looking at the definitions of both, I’d have to say that I fall into the latter rather than the former category.

Marcia at The Printed Page has been occupied with “By the Chapter,” which is where she and at least one co-host read a book and write about it each day on their blogs. They just finished The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde this week

Over at Weekly Geeks , their project for the week is to imagine what you’d ask if you could interview one of your favourite literary characters. Then you post about it and post a link to your post, on their blog, and go and discover other people’s interviews.

If I weren’t so strapped for time, I’d really love to do this one. I’d want to interview Francis Crawford, from the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. Except I’m so sure I’d be hugely intimidated by him, and wouldn’t be able to open my mouth. Maybe I should interview him by email.

And that’s it for today. Things seem to be either a bit low key for many of us, or else so busy we’ve been taken away from the books a bit more than we’d like. But this is another week, and they’re always waiting for us.

Have a good week!

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