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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : Estarriol's 2008 challenge | | 75 | Rhinoa, Yesterday 5:01am |  |
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| 888 Challenge : Sky34's | | 61 | sky34, July 11 | |
| The Green Dragon : When just released books sell out very quickly, does it mess up their sales momentum? | | 70 | clamairy, June 2 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Have you ever started a book and then thought... | | 15 | karenmarie, May 20 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : My book list | | 71 | Ernie64, May 14 | |
| Book talk : How do you choose what you read? | | 14 | Jodyreadseverything, May 5 | |
| The Green Dragon : Books about books and reading. Are they worth the time? | | 32 | clamairy, May 4 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : March 2008 edition | | 37 | thioviolight, April 7 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : We're all afraid of something | | 14 | ostrom, March 26 | |
| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : January 2008 edition | | 51 | alaskabookworm, February 4 | |
| Dormant: Australian LibraryThingers : Geraldine Brooks | | 29 | bleuroses, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : His_Kid's 50 books from May-December | | 5 | His_Kid, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Solitude1984 accepts the challenge! | | 11 | solitude1984, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 Apr 2007 | | 149 | ShannonMDE, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Stupid game to play | | 432 | siubhank, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : SaraHope's 80-book challenge | | 15 | SaraHope, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Morphidae's challenge | | 35 | Morphidae, August 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 July 2007 | | 173 | Storeetllr, July 2007 |
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... its description. Her infatuation with genre fiction (mysteries/detective stories) was totally lost on me. Alternatively, So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson is spot on and well worth reading.
I am taking your advice and currently reading Duma Key. My take so far? Well, I'm ... ... how I choose my books, it's just that it's a complicated process to explain.
One of my favorite "books about books" is So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson. She chronicles a year of reading, not so much focusing on reviewing the books but on writing about how she goes from book to ... ... this book before on the book industry and it remains one of my favorites that shows the inefficent nature of the industry. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid. I SOOO agree with you, Clam. I had to keep putting Ex Libris down so I wouldn't read it so fast. But I trudged through So Many Books, So Little Time.
I eagerly await recommendations from WHL. ... Give me some more recommendations, then, my good man! I truly loved Ex Libris, but there are only parts I'm enjoying in So Many Books, So Little Time. I'm almost done, but it's taken me a five days to get through what should have been a one or two day read at the most. Of course, my kids are ... ... read a few of these in the past few years, and the only one I really loved was Ex Libris. Right now I'm slogging through So many Books, So Little Time and the author worries much too much about wanting to be seen by people carrying around certain books.
Any body else ever read books like ... #16 - It's a crap-shoot type business just like everything else. Right now I'm reading So Many Books, So Little Time and she's talking about who gets published, and why. It's thoroughly depressing. #3 Lindsayg: I have read both Ex Libris and So Many Books, So Little Time, but the former affected me more than the latter. Part of the reason, I believe, is because of Fadiman's fascination with Arctic exploration. I share the same passion for reading about the Actic explorers (and explorers ... Alcottacre.
I felt the same way about Ex Libris! Also Sara Nelson's So Many Books, So Little Time. The Golden Tulip by Roslind Laker
Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith So many books, so little time : a year of passionate reading by Sara Nelson
Thursday Next in The well of lost plots : a novel by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next in Lost in a good book : a novel by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre affair : a novel by Jasper Fforde ... 15- 4 Stars
2. Book Lust- Nancy Pearl
3. More Book Lust - Nancy Pearl
4. Ex Libris - Anne Fadiman
5. So Many Books, So Little Time - Sara Nelson
6. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
7. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
8. Literacy and Longing in L.A. - ... ... Lust-Nancy Pearl
3. More Book Lust - Nancy Pearl
4. Bibliotherapy - Beverly West and Nancy Peske
5. So Many Books, So Little Time - Sara Nelson
6. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
7. Interred with their Bones - Jennifer Lee Carrell
8. Literacy and Lon ... 3F.) So many Books, so Little Time by Sara Nelson
I have mixed feelings about this. I really like the idea of this book, and I appreciate that the author reads books that are more intellectual as well as the "fluff' we all know I adore. But...although I like her premise and her plan, I am ... ... I read in 2007 on my blog (I'm not sure if we're to put our blog names here, so I won't unless someone asks. After reading So Many books, so little time I figure I MUST be able to get in 50 books in a year - it sounds simple considering how much I love reading. Perhaps I'll even read some of ... ... and the relationship between colors and sounds and Hebrew letters, among other things. I liked this one a lot.
#207: So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Another reread. I liked this one as much the second time as I did the first time; her books don't sound like things I would ... Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (Ailurophobia)
Wild Flowers of Crete by V Papiomitoglou (Anthrophobia)
So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid (Bibliophobia)
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (Oneirophobia)
The Strange World of the Moon by V A Firsoff (Selenophobia)
... by Laura Lee Guhrke
52. Simply Love by Mary Balogh
53. Simply Unforgettable by Mary Balogh
54. So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Ok-ish, but someone else's personal story of reading is not something I find particularly interesting. I was most ... So Many Books, So Little Time, by Sara Nelson (242 pages)
Review to follow, but suffice it to say I felt "eh..." about this book. It's basically a blog-like stream of consciousness about her life, with a little bit about books sprinkled in here and there. 2 stars.
July count up to 1397. I am currently reading So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson, and Kingdom Come by Tim LaHaye (it isn't even that I want to, but I just have to put this darn series to bed). Also checked out from the library are: The Well-Educated Mind, Parenting with Love and Logic, and a ... ... else: Graham's memoir is slugged "Memoir/Women's Studies," while Lawrence's is called "Autobiography/Business."
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson ... Gathering Blue
Author: Lois Lowry
Book #19
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Book #20
Title: So Many Books, So Little Time
Author: Sara Nelson
Book #21
Title: Nineteen Minutes
Author: Jodi Picoult ... McMaster Bujold
(Reread) I love her entry into fantasy with its mythological system and unperfect hero(ine)s.
76. So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Not as fab as Ex Libris: Confessions by Fadiman but still a delightful read.
77. Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold
Cont ... I read and quite enjoyed Nine Parts of Desire, having first heard about this collection of essays in So Many Books, So Little Time: a year of passionate reading. As others have mentioned, it's benefited by the fact that Brooks wrote it before the Islamic world and Islamic fundamentalism had ... I read and quite enjoyed Nine Parts of Desire, having first heard about this collection of essays in So Many Books, So Little Time: a year of passionate reading. As others have mentioned, it's benefited by the fact that Brooks wrote it before the Islamic world and Islamic fundamentalism had ... ... book of hers that I've read and it was surprisingly good. I'll definitely read more of her books.
I'm currently reading So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson. I first tried to read this soon after reading Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader and it lacked in comparison. I put ... ... to recover from it. (Besides, since I've written a novel about reeducation, I like seeing how other people use it.)
#79: So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
I got off on the wrong foot with this book in the prologue, where the author spends a lot of time assuring the reader (defensiv ...
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