27 posts tagged “books”
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Getting to Know You Contest - Win A Book
from Romance Novel TV by MarisaThis morning we’d like to get to know you better and we also want to give away a book. Anyone can enter, all you have to do is answer the questions . Later tonight I’ll put the names of all the posters who entered and and pick a random winner.
1. Who is your favorite author? (limit 3 authors, if you really can’t decide)
2. Which romance novel would you like to have filmed for the big screen?
3. Where is your favorite place to read?
4. What are you reading right now?
5. What’s your favorite sub-genre of romance?
6. How many books do you read in a month?
7. What’s the best book (could be any genre) you ever read?
1. I'd have to say Shannon McKenna is #1, followed by J.R. Ward.
2. Watching the Brotherhood on the big screen would be AWESOME. Need more vampire fun.
3. Right now, sprawled on my bed near the window with the sunlight pouring in.
4. Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson & Alpha/Omega series, along with Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series.
5. Contemporary Erotic Suspense or Erotic Fantasy. Funny, since I started with contemporary, then moved to historical.
6. A book a day sounds good.. I didn't say they were all NEW books.
7. I'm not a highbrow book snob. Tara K Harper's SciFi/Fantasy Cat Scratch Fever scarred me good. Love it.
After work I'm heading to the Borders in Oakbrook to see if R. A. Salvatore is really there or not. Hopefully I'll have the Dark Elf trilogy with me for an autograph.
Keeping my fingers crossed...
Books: Show us a great children's book.
I love reading this book to children, whether it be siblings, cousins or future nieces and nephews. The topics covered are great, with a unique child-perspective and a humor that even parents would enjoy (I think, anyways).
Hope all my neighbors have read it!
I loved reading Nancy Drew (by Carolyn Keene and hordes of ghost writers) as a preteen/teenager, so imagine my surprise to find that Nancy Drew (warner bros) will be released in theaters June 15th, less than a month away.
I stopped at the giant Borders near the optometrist last week and found a few bargains I could not pass up. The bigger stores have a better selection in this category, so I always check it out.
The Handy ** Answer Book series fascinates me. Maybe it is my desire to be a teacher, but I find them to be incredibly useful in a general interest sort of way. I may have to collect the entire series. Great winter reading! Jeopardy, look out!
And now back to the subject of paganism in pop culture: I've run into some very snotty pagans online that vilify those they view as "selling out" to popular culture, or those who 'dare' to write books that make it simple and easily accessible. Both Fiona and Silver Ravenwolf fall under this category, but I'm sure there are more.
I am not offended by Fiona Horne, regardless of what she was involved in (apparantly a reality show where she was out of the broom closet). Nor does Silver Ravenwolf offend me. Maybe it's my independent spirit, or my love of the freedom to be who we are, the way I treasure open minds. I'm not sure. I don't agree with either of these women 100% but I also am not aware of outright lying done by them. As far as I am concerned, they are struggling witches just like me, trying to find a place in the world. And they've been vastly more successful than I have been, but that should not make them easy targets for persecution or hatred by other pagans.
I try not to imagine that pagans should somehow be 'better' than others, less human (less imperfections) but this dirty little aspect of the pagan community, the snarky-ness of it, annoys me to no end and does more to keep me solitary in practice than anything else. Only the incredibly positive experiences I've had at Diana's Grove keep me interested in finding like minds.
It seems I'm a blog fanatic. Not a reader (unless nice network-sites like vox provide easy reading linkage to all my blog friends!) but I like to post my thoughts on almost anything and everything. I used to even take notes, especially when I was able to listen to public radio at work, so as to remember what I wanted to mention in my blog later..
Well I'm going to shut down my typepad account, as soon as I can import the posts into vox, especially the Astrology, Quiz, Pagan and Green items. Vox_help is working on it and will hopefully get back to me. Joy. And I need to figure out how to import my typelist into vox full of book finds when I worked at the library last year. Those books are appropriately categorized as "hidden gems"!
Next step to narrowing my blog focus? Ceasing posting at livejournal, and putting all posts here. If only there were a way to import some select few livejournal friends into my list here, or to set up blogrolling or something like it. Hmm.. Questions.
The Annotated Pride & Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Edited by David M. Shapard
This book represents the first annotated version ever of Jane Austen's most popular novel. It contains the complete text of the novel, along with more than 2300 annotations. These annotations provide historical background on the society and customs depicted in the novel, point out connections between its incidents and Jane Austen's own life, analyze the techniques and themes of the author, and define the many words in the novel that have become archaic or have shifted their meaning since the time it was published.
I covet this.
This book follows the story of Ken and Mari, twins to Jack and Briony from Conspiracy Game.
I love this series from Feehan. The Carpathian novels were growing a bit... full of sameness. Though I cannot wait for Dimitri and Manolito's stories! Let alone Jonas.
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