BlogHer - books - Comments

loriluna — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:48:06 -0600

The articles you linked to in the last post, the Time kids.

Articles

Britt Bravo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:45:46 -0600

Hi Lori,

Do you mean the articles under related posts? If so, they were written by adults.

Hail to the Future

loriluna — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:54:53 -0600

Those articles were written by kids? Wow! I am certain we under estimate the future and I for one say we need to embrace their ideas and talents "NOW"!

Loving this!!

What TW said...

Denise — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:02:44 -0600

I'm not a sneaky pie fan and add that on top of just plain disliking Rita Mae... I'm wary. I might end up reading it, just because I'm a glutton for punishment, though. Heh.

~Denise BlogHer Community Manager
Flamingo House Happenings

Sigh

TW — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:59 -0600

I adored Rubyfruit Jungle and liked nearly all the books BEFORE the Sneaky Pie books. I read a couple of them but they just didn't do it for me. I also didn't love her horse and hound books.

Retro-Food.com

Animal Magnetism by Rita Mae Brown

consciouscat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:26:14 -0600

Denise, if you like the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries and love pets, you'd probably enjoy it. A lot of it *is* about Rita Mae Brown, so if none of the above apply and you're not a fan, it might get a bit tedious :-)

I can't decide

Denise — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:59:46 -0600

I'm not a Rita Mae fan and I'm on the fence about whether or not to read this. Still thinking.

~Denise BlogHer Community Manager
Flamingo House Happenings

Great Suggestions

kristendom — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:51:00 -0500

Wow, I'm really glad I posted about this - these are all great suggestions. I'll have to try some of them (or all of them) out. Hoping to turn this slump around soon - there are too many good books out there to waste time not reading :).

I'm not sure I've ever been in a slump

Denise — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:42:04 -0500

I've been too tired to read but that's not quite the same thing as a slump.

Maybe re-reading an old favorite would help? Exploring a new genre? Try a graphic novel? Or a book written by a blogger. ;-)

~Denise BlogHer Community Manager
Flamingo House Happenings

What do you love?

AnExtendedVacation — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:10:53 -0500

I was in a reading slump a year ago and none of my usual reads were doing it for me. So I stepped out of my usual reading and picked up some books that were about cooks, food and their experiences. I read six books in a month that month! I could not get enough of it because the books matched where I was at my life. All of the writers were at turning points in their lives and so was I. I was also obsessed with cooking since I had the time (unemployment does that to you).

Maybe you just need to scope out some books outside of what you normally read. You might surprise yourself with what you enjoy!

You're in a slump

sassymonkey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:36:45 -0500

It's happens to me at least once a year, sometimes more. Sometimes I find rereading favourite books helps. I went through a particularly long-lived rereading slump this year - almost two straight months. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you just need to wait until a really, really good book hits your path. Good recommendations can help. Do you read book blogs? Book blogs often pull me through slumps with their recommendations.

The Welcome post and the help a blogher out post in the BlogHer Book Club have some good recommendations.

I'll see if I can't send in a posse with some more suggestions for how to kick your drought. ;)

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

My daughter asked...

Leighbra — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:30:48 -0500

us "how are babies born?" at a busy family dinner...knowing then wasn't the best time to go into it, my husband said...

"Head first"

Frankly, I thought he was madly brilliant for coming up with a child appeasing answer on the spot like that (with oh, 40 family members wondering what we would say), and I assure you, she now knows the other more important details.

There is great value in knowing how much detail your child is ready for and catering your answer to fit the age.

Will try to remember the books we had in the office in my midwifery days.

The thing with Atwood

sassymonkey — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:30:06 -0500

Is that when I see her in person and hear her read from her own stories, or just talk, I'm enthralled. (Yes, I've been lucky enough to meet her and attend several readings. Sigh. I really miss living in Toronto sometimes.) But when I actually read her works it's just not the same. To me, and I'm pretty sure I'm in a minority, I think of her as a storyteller more than a writer and I want her to tell me the story. Not words on a page, even though they are very fine words on a page.

Though this is a very good reminder that Moral Disorder has been languishing on my shelves for a very long time.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

Atwood

Denise — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:26:41 -0500

Sometimes I'm a fan, sometimes I am not. I am clicking to read the full post because I'm thinking about reading Bluebeard's Egg.

~Denise BlogHer Community Manager
Flamingo House Happenings

I adored those books

sassymonkey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:40:07 -0500

I had a Disney collection, including a Disney record player that I believe had Dumbo on it. I loved it. It had all the classic Disneyfied stories. Sleeping Beauty was my favourite. You had to turn the page when your heard Tinkerbell.

I do believe that one of my nephews "inherited" the collection and promptly destroyed it. Sigh.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

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Hail to the Future

What TW said...

Sigh

Animal Magnetism by Rita Mae Brown

I can't decide

Great Suggestions

I'm not sure I've ever been in a slump

What do you love?

You're in a slump

My daughter asked...

The thing with Atwood

Atwood

I adored those books