Friday Five [January 27]

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Friday Five is a weekly meme hosted at Kate’s Library where bloggers share what they have been reading for the week.

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1. Lemony Snicket Gives Love Advice on Twitter.  I enjoyed reading his responses to the questions that were thrown at him.
2. Book awards and nominations.  The winners for the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott Award were announced.   The nominees for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award have also been announced.  I loved these lists because I found a couple titles that I might add to my ever growing TBR list.
3. Inspired by Edith Wharton.  Since January 24 is Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday, author Lev Raphael writes about how her works have inspired his literary career.  I’ve discovered new titles while reading this article as well. This has also inspired me to finally pick up Age of Innocence and House of Mirth, both of which have been sitting on my shelves and gathering dust.  This line was enough to pull me in: “awed by her wit, her powers of description, and her sharp eye for hypocrisy and foolishness.“
4. Virginia Woolf: Provocative quotes for her 130th birthday.  January 25 was Virginia Woolf’s 130th birthday.  So I scoured for some articles and saw this.  I like this quote: “Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.“
5. What is a classic? A nice post by Jillian on defining a classic.

Friday Five [January 20]

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Friday Five is a weekly meme hosted at Kate’s Library where bloggers share what they have been reading for the week.

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1. Should J. K. Rowling win the Nobel Prize? -  I liked Harry Potter (and I’m re-reading the entire series for a Harry Potter Reading Challenge this year) but I really don’t know if I would go as far as nominate Ms. Rowling for a Nobel.
2. Chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Moby Dick by Robert diCurcio.  Well, I didn’t read everything but it was nice to know which chapters he suggested to skip and which were important.  However, as a first time reader myself, I think it would be nice to read the entire text then choose the chapters you want to read in case you are going for a re-read.
3. 12 Books You Need On Your Bookshelf.  I have “On the Origin of Species,” by Charles Darwin and “Midnight’s Children,” by Salman Rushdie (I’ve read that there’s gonna be a readalong in March ) that are just begging to be read. I do have the Bible and I’m planning to read it and watch the Open Yale courses on the Old and New Testament as supplementary material.
4. The Why We Broke Up Project.  I know that its an entire site that I am referencing here but I had fun reading the reasons for the break-ups and Daniel Handler’s (Lemony Snicket!) responses to them.
5. What’s wrong with SOPA? – I just can’t help but read about it to understand more.

Friday Five [January 13]

Friday Five is a weekly meme hosted at Kate’s Library where bloggers share what they have been reading for the week.

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1. Moby Dick Readalong Intro.  Introduction before delving into the actual work which I am reading along with others for the Moby Dick Readalong hosted by The Blue Bookcase.
2. Tips for reading War and Peace.  Since I am reading War and Peace with others in a read-a-long hosted by Jillian at A Room of One’s Own, this post is really fitting.  I also plan to read about the Napoleonic Wars just to get a little background information.
3. 10 Famous Authors’ Famous Addictions.  Lord Byron has a very interesting addiction.  :)
4. 7 Drunken Confessions From Literature.  ”I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
5. A Guide to Getting Started in The Indian Short Story.  I’ve always been interested in reading Indian literature and this post definitely helps in getting started.  And since I mentioned India, I just knew about a literature festival called The Jaipur Literature Festival by reading Salman Rushdie’s tweets.  It is held annually in Jaipur, Rajasthan in India.

Friday Five [December 16]

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Reading

Friday Five is a weekly meme hosted at Kate’s Library where bloggers share what they have been reading for the week.

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1. Classics that kids hate tweeted through #worstbookever hashtag.  There are a couple of really funny tweets here. I just found this one really funny:
   

   @RMcCormack16:
   thank god for sparknotes #readingthecrucible#worstbookever

2. Reading Iconic Novels Later in Life: Worth the Wait? by Dave Astor.  This is an interesting article about reading the classics when one is much older.
3. Do-it-yourself (DIY) Gift Ideas for bookworms.  I’d like to make the Fabric Bookmark and the Winter Art Journal.
4. What it means when you say “literally.”  A very humorous post on the use of “literally.”
5. An Ode to Book Nerds.  Jason Pinter started a hashtag on Twitter, #booknerd, where bookworms tweeted funny experiences that happened to them because of their bookishness.  There are some really funny #booknerd tweets in this post but I loved this:
   

   @shmisarah:
   @jasonpinter After reading all of the LOTR series (+silmarillion) I made family trees for the 9-antiqued w/coffee and framed.. #booknerd

The Friday Five [December 9]

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Friday Five is a weekly meme hosted at Kate’s Library where bloggers share what they have been reading for the week.

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This is my first entry for Friday Five.  Below is the list of articles that I have read for this week:

1. Tergiverstate is the Word of the Year for 2011 according to Dictionary.com.  never heard of the word yet it is Word of the Year. A little snippet from the article:Pronounced “ter-JIV-er-sate”, “to change repeatedly one’s attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.” 
2. Mark Twain and Facebook.  Read on about why Mark Twain would have been kicked out of Facebook.
3. William Faulkner + HBO.  According to a press release, writer/director David Milch’s production company, Redboard Productions has just completed a multi-year exclusive television deal with HBO, as well as an agreement with Faulkner’s literary estate to create both films and television series based on any of Faulkner’s 19 novels and 125 short stories, excepting those already contracted. HBO will have the first shot at any project that emerges from the work.
4. Insprational Reading Quotes. Quotes on reading by authors such as Philip Pullman, Oscar Wilde, and Neil Gaiman.
5. Overlooked books of 2011.  I have never read any one of the titles in the list but have read [sic] listed somewhere.
6. Famous Authors’ view on Symbolism.  Read some of the responses by known authors with regards to a questionnaire sent to them by a student.