Sunday Salon
TSS: I’ve been neglecting my blog… (but still reading!)
I apologize for neglecting my blog and disappearing for almost the entire month of February! I let myself get distracted by 100 other things going on around me. It’s not even that I didn’t have time to write reviews but put them off while I did other things.
However, despite my lack of posting, I [...]
TSS: January Wrap Up
Reading
I managed to read three books in one month. Granted they were all 300 pages or less so that helped. Still I think I’m off to a good start.
“So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy” edited by Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan
“Kynship” – “The Way of Thorn & Thunder” #1 by Daniel [...]
TSS: Book Covers That Lie, Yet Again…
Looks like book publisher, Bloomsbury, is at it again. A recent book, “Magic Under Glass” by Jacyln Dolamore has a cover that depicts a white woman on the front cover. However, the main character is describe within as being black. You my remember my other post from July: Book Covers That Lie about the controversy [...]
TSS: Reading updates & plans for 2010
I feel like I’m having a hard time getting into reading a book after I finish one. It’s like I don’t know what I really want to read and I can’t force myself to read something. Also I feel guilty when I abandon a book – like I’m giving up too easily on it. Part [...]
TSS: NaBloPoMo instead of NaNoWriMo
I acted way too impulsively when I signed up for NaNoWriMo – I don’t have the time to be writing 1667+ words a day – especially not this first week as I really do have several things that need to be done. Not to mention the week of Thanksgiving when family will be in town [...]
Random Thoughts for The Sunday Salon, Oct. 25th
My second Read-a-Thon has come and gone. In my first read-a-thon I was a reader and this time a cheerleader. I feel guilty that I didn’t make it around to all the readers that were participating. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to start cheering until 6pm yesterday and I crashed earlier than I thought I would. [...]
TSS: Catching up on Books Read & TV Shows Watched
Before I get into the actual commentaries, I wanted to welcome my brother to my blog. I ended up showing him my previous post (“Learning to Pay Attention to the Stereotypes“) because he wanted to know why I wasn’t watching Stargate Universe. Now I’m trying to get him to do at lest one guest post [...]
TSS: The To Be Read Pile and New Goals
I currently own 24 books that I haven’t read yet and while I realize my pile isn’t as large as other book bloggers around the web it is something I want to deal with before I buy any more books. So, new goal for myself – Read as many of the 24 books as I [...]
TSS: Challenges and Short Stories
One of the options for Carl of Stainless Steel Droppings’ Readers Imbibing Peril (RIP) Challenge is to read short stories that fit into one of the following genres: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Dark Fantasy, Gothic, Horror, or Supernatural. While searching for novels to read for the challenge I’ve ended up with two books of short stories:
The [...]
TSS: Fall 2009 TV, What will you be watching?
For today’s Sunday Salon I thought I’d ask what everyone is going to be watching on TV this fall. I’ve also included my viewing choices – all times are USA Eastern. For those of you in other contras I’d love to know more about what shows you’ve got that might not. Also if anyone in [...]
