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Comment on read ‘em now, the Tamora Pierce edition by Ellen Rhudy

Ellen Rhudy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:16:06 +0000

Last week I was at the gym listening to the Bookrageous podcast and wanted to cheer so hard when you mentioned Tamora Pierce. I would reread all her books about once a year while I was in high school. It’s been less regular since then, but I still have these moments where I realize that I NEED to revisit her entire catalog. Like right now, even though I’m still reading the latest Beka Cooper – it’s been too long since I’ve read the Lioness books and I want to put down everything else, crawl into bed, and read the hell out of that series.

Comment on read ‘em later by Kevin Fenton

Kevin Fenton — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:04:41 +0000

I loved The debt to Pleasure, loved the passage quoted, and I think it’s wonderful that someone who has written some of the most lucid non-fiction about the financial crisis (I.O.U) has now turned that into a novel.

Comment on the return of: read ‘em now by read ‘em now, the Tamora Pierce edition « jennIRL

read ‘em now, the Tamora Pierce edition « jennIRL — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:50:10 +0000

[...] think reading GRACELING and AMONG OTHERS in proximity rewired my brain and now i just can’t stop reading my favorite YA, which means i am reading [...]

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the return of: read ‘em later « jennIRL — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:17:33 +0000

[...] THING, Josh Bazell: pretty much nothing could ever top BEAT THE REAPER for sheer wooooooooaaaahhh, but he really tries on this one. Peter Brown, ten years later! what does that even look like? and [...]

Comment on round-up of dooooooom by STACEY

STACEY — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:32:45 +0000

Just wanted to say love you on Bookrageous and heard you on Fuzzy Typewriter’s the Passage podcast. A book I will picking up 2012, albeit probably reading it along with something else. Merry Christmas

Comment on scattered thoughts on Occupy by Gerald Francis Miller

Gerald Francis Miller — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:33:48 +0000

It’s a blue christmas without you.

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ger

Comment on on favorite books, or: i am verklempt about ANGELMAKER by Rich

Rich — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:35:50 +0000

I now am eager to read Angelmaker! Note: by eager, I mean I will most likely buy it when it comes out in anticipation of a good read and in order to drool over what like likely be a cool book as object (as with GAW), and only eventually get to read it as I am incredibly, incredibly slow getting through novels now that I’m not a bookseller.

Comment on round-up of doom by jennIRL

jennIRL — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:52:33 +0000

yeah, it’s a tricky thing. the cloud-based storage thing is very appealing in theory, but in practice, you have to wonder about all the obvious things — security, ownership, access, etc etc etc. i have an external hard-drive that houses all my music and back-up files. will i give that up for the cloud? likely not. will i have that AND the cloud? maybe.

there are very few ebooks you can actually OWN, especially because so many of them are only readable in conjunction with Adobe Digital Editions. i have ebooks on several different platforms — which, yes, is a pain, but also makes me feel less nervous about ownership/privacy issues. it’s kind of like how i keep photos on my computer as well as on Picasa and tumblr. i am not militant about it, but little ways of making sure that my information isn’t silo’d (is that a word?) make me feel a little less at-the-mercy-of-the-company, whoever it is…

Comment on round-up of doom by Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:40:43 +0000

Also interesting, in terms of timing, that news of the Fire appeared at the same time as this story –

http://techland.time.com/2011/09/28/rumor-apple-killing-ipod/

As someone very happy with his 120GB iPod, this worries me — especially as the “solution” (to, admittedly, a rumored “problem”) seems to be to wait for Apple’s cloud-based service to kick in and then, er, upload 400+ GB of music to them.

I have no problem with a voluntary service that tracks my reading; I have Goodreads and last.fm memberships, after all. But I’m a lot more skeptical of being in a position where I have to share information on all of the music that I have with Apple in order to fully use an Apple device. And, for me, that applies equally to books (perhaps one of the reasons I haven’t embraced an e-reader.)

Thinking out loud/rambling here…

Comment on a thing we figured out by Gerald Francis Miller

Gerald Francis Miller — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:45:23 +0000

After hearing the author(what’s her name) in a couple of interviews I just lost interest in the book.Oh Egan right?

ger(curlew)