January 1 – December 31, 2012 I am not only co-hosting this challenge – I’m joining it! Sign ups may be found on this post. Last year I did not reach my goal for this challenge, so I’ve chosen a different level this year: The Plump Primer level challenges the reader to read SIX chunksters. [...]
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Literary Novels from my Stacks: A Personal Challenge
I love the literary prizes and I own a ton of books which have either won or been nominated for those prizes…but which I have yet to read. I track many of the prizes on this page of my blog. I also have joined some individual challenges which are perpetual and encourage reading from certain [...]
2011 – The Year of the Feminist Classics
January 1 – December 31, 2011 A Year of Feminist Classics is a project started by Amy, Ana, Emily Jane and Iris, four book bloggers who share an interest in the feminist movement and its history. The project will work a little like an informal reading group: for all of 2011, we will each month [...]
Reading Challenges Update
Since we are well into November and the end of the year is fast approaching, I thought I should go through my remaining reading challenges and see where I am. Here is my update as of today: COMPLETED Challenges in the last couple of months: The Women Unbound Challenge asked that participants read nonfiction and [...]
Social Justice Challenge: Poverty
This month’s theme for The Social Justice Challenge is poverty. We all know what poverty looks like, right? We see it on our streets daily – the homeless sitting on street corners, the elderly struggling to pay for medications and groceries, the young who are often hungry and sad. Most of us probably have a [...]
Quilts for Kids – Finished!
As part of the Social Justice Challenge in May, I decided to make a quilt for an organization called Quilts for Kids whose mission is: Transforming discontinued, unwanted and other fabrics into patchwork quilts that comfort children with life-threatening illnesses and children of abuse. I finished this quilt over the weekend and mailed it off [...]
There is No Me Without You – Book Review
Haregewoin had one color photo of Atetegeb holding her baby. She enlarged this photo until its lines turned all pastel and soft. She framed it and centered it on the wall above the sofa. She framed a smaller black-and-white photo of Atetegeb and Suzie as teenagers laughing together. Under the glass she placed a slip [...]
TLC Book Tour: Everything is Broken
Everything is Broken by Emma Larkin ISBN 978-1-59420-257-5 264 pages The Penguin Press (2010) Welcome to my TLC Book Tour of Everything is Broken. This is a stark, moving book which I highly recommend (read my review). Emma Larkin is the pseudonym for an American who was born and raised in Asia, studied the Burmese [...]
Everything Is Broken – Book Review
There is a Burmese phrase that perfectly described the limited amount of aid being delivered after the cyclone versus the enormity of the need: As the phrase goes, it was like tossing sesame seeds into the mouth of an elephant. – from Everything is Broken, page 46 – The willingness expected of a soldier is [...]
Social Justice Challenge: Update on Quilts for Kids
**Enjoy a larger view on all photos with a click Now that I’m back from New York City, I decided to get busy on this project. Yesterday I cut all the fabric, laid out the design and then pieced about half of the quilt top. Today I got really motivated and pieced the rest of [...]
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