Women in their Beds

1 Comment / 2008, Books in Bed, Don't Read This, From the Stacks Challenge, short stories /

Please! No MORE Short Stories! I cannot take it anymore.

When I started Women in their Beds, TW said “Why are you reading THAT?” Ugh. My heart sunk. She had bought the book, after all. She’d read it, after all. Still, I had hope. We don’t always agree on books.

Ugh.

This is the problem with choosing books for a challenge based on something like “choosing some from every color”, lol. This is also what happens when you buy books simply because you like their titles or like their covers. This is also what happens when you buy a book, hate it and leave it on your shelf anyway.

I think that’s going to be my next “challenge” – get rid of the stuff we both really hated (except for that one book that I want to burn… I don’t want anyone to read it so I’m going to keep it here, hidden in the rainbow of books where I can keep an eye on it and make sure nobody else is harmed by reading it.)

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  • Skimbaco – The Lifestyle: Barbie goes Green at your local Walmart
    Walmart is hosting a fun event “Give Back with Barbie Cares," and encouraging girls to contribute to a more sustainabla pilot program exploring toy recyclabilitye future and recycling. Children are welcomed to the in-store event to bring and recycle their old Barbie dolls to be used in a pilot program exploring toy recyclability. For each doll donated, Mattel will donate a new doll to a local children’s hospital, up to 100,000 dolls.
    (tags: barbie green recycle walmart)

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  • The Fairness Doctrine: Coming Back? | BlogHer
    We are less than a week from the Big Day. It is probable that Barack Obama will be our next president and he will be welcomed by a liberal-controlled House and Senate. Although I haven’t made peace with the fact that Obama may win, and I’m certainly not happy about it, I have accepted it. What concerns me at this point are some of the peripheral issues we aren’t hearing about in the mainstream media. Specifically, freedom of speech and the Fairness Doctrine.
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    Like some people have a soft spot for Christmas music, I'll always love the creepy-kitschy tunes rolled out on Halloween. Now, I like "Werewolves of London" as much as the next ghoul, but sometimes I want my Halloween playlist to have a little more hipster cool. Last year I did fashion a short playlist from Last.FM's vast catalog.
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  • TWB: Traveling While Black | BlogHer
    When I first started hefting a carry on into the overhead compartment, it seemed like everyone looked like me. Traveling was for Jewish kids sent off to work on the kibbutz or pale colored language students favored by their teachers enough to get the foreign exchange program recommendation. The browner travelers I saw were primarily visitors to family members divided by circumstances. I did meet travelers from all over the planet, but if they had any color to them, it's because they'd spent the last month on a Greek island or hanging out in the Sinai. Wandering was, it seemed, for the white.
    (tags: travel race)

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A Wreath for Emmett Till

1 Comment / 2008, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Printz Award Challenge, Young Adult /

When I created the Printz Challenge, I paid absolutely ZERO attention to which books I’d be reading. When I add them to my library reserve list, I don’t look at the listing in the card catalog at all. So when they arrive, I’m often a wee bit surprised by what I’m holding in my hand.

A Wreath for Emmett Till was one of those surprising “what the heck is this” moments. It’s a tiny little book, it looks more like a kids book than a YA. But then you open it and you realize – ah it’s a poetry. Sonnets. Written in Petrarchan Rhyme. With a lot of big words YA kids will not know. Tough read. Interesting though. Also led to TW giving me MORE instructions for her funeral.

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  • Shattered glass | BlogHer
    Pam at Blood Signs asks "Do you ever ask yourself if you are the same person you have always been?"
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    Just last week I broke out my heavy scarf, and today I realized I will soon need thermals under my jeans. My friends, Winter is on its way. The rhythm of the natural word effects our physical, emotional, and spiritual lives. We show a little skin in the Summer, and hibernate in the Winter. We fall in love during Spring fever, and feel full of gratitude in the Fall. Each sacred season brings us blessing and challenges — mind, body, and soul — and isn't it great to have wise friends along for the journey?
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  • Kindle One of Oprah's Favorite Things | BlogHer
    It's official. Oprah's favorite new gadget is Amazon's Kindle ebook reader. I've secretly been lusting after an ebook reader for awhile now, you know in that "if I had a money tree" kind of way. Let's be honest, at $359 the Kindle isn't cheap and even if I could buy a Kindle (it's still not available in Canada) like most people we're tightening our pocketbooks here. Will Oprah's Midas touch help the Kindle top bestseller lists this holiday season?
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  • Laura Ingalls Wilder From The Prairie to TV to…Twitter? | BlogHer
    What do you think of when I say "Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder?" Do you think of summer afternoons reading about little Laura, her family and their adventures on the prairie? Do you think of the TV show starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson? Do you think Twitter? Yeah, you heard me, Twitter. Hold onto your bonnets, people 'cause you remember sweet little Laura? Well she's a 21st century lady now and that means she's on Twitter.
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  • Sexism, Sarah, and the Future of Conservatism | BlogHer
    Using Perez as a case study, and basing my opinion of the entertainment media solely on the fifteen seconds of his site that I can stand, let me just say that between the commentary on Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, I've learned that sexism is not only alive and well in this country, but its cleverly disguised as political humor. Yes, I'm cynical, but there's no mistaking that calling someone "hot" in a condescending manner is a newly discovered way of putting someone down politically. Just think what would have happened if she'd been hot and poorly dressed?
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  • Mom Without A Map » Blog Archive » I got paid!
    The other day I received my first paycheck in four and a half years.
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