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Posts on ‘January 29th, 2010’

May in New York City…

May 28th, 2010 Have you all seen this? Thanks to some motivated and energetic bloggers (Trish, Amy, Natasha, Rebecca, Michelle, Nicole, and Pam) the Book Blogger Convention is a go. Scheduled to coordinate with the Book Expo of America in New York City (May 25, 26, and 27) this is an event you really don’t [...]

The Basic Book of Digital Photography: Book Review

Digital photography is fascinating, fulfilling, and  just plain fun. Little wonder that in relatively few years it has become far more popular than film photography. (It was 1994 when the first consumer digital camera appeared.) In our fast-paced times, we all want instant gratification – and that’s what you get with digital photography. There’s no [...]

Friday Finds – January 29, 2010

Welcome to Friday Finds hosted by Jenn at Should Be Reading. It has been a long time since I’ve participated in this meme and I have quite a few *starred* items in my Google Reader…books which have caught my attention through fantastic reviews and ticklers. Clicking on book titles will take you to Amazon where [...]

NBCC Announces Finalists…

Do you haunt the prize lists like I do? Well, if you do, then you’ve probably already seen the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle. If not, I thought I’d share them with you: Autobiography: Somewhere Towards the End, by Diana Athill (Norton) Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed [...]