Finish That Bad Book?

Most book lovers feel compelled to finish reading a book no matter how boring, uninteresting, dense, or otherwise unlikeable it may be. I feel that way and have rarely just scrapped reading a book because I was struggling through it. Why? I think maybe it goes back to when we were being taught how to [...]

Alumni Bookshelf

Every so often I receive a magazine from my college. It’s one of those magazines they send to alumni, updating us on the goings on at Oswego State and proudly displaying the projects that donations from alumni have supported. Honestly, I don’t usually read it. I may flip through, but that’s about it. I actually [...]

Glyde.com — A Brand New Way to Buy, Sell, and Share

I was recently invited to check out a new website called Glyde while it’s in Beta. The site offers users the opportunity to buy very discounted books, DVDs, video games, and CDs. You can also sell them and build a display page for your media, called your Collection. The cost to use Glyde? Nothing. The [...]

Survey Time: Which Comes First the Book or the Movie?

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

And The Winner Is…

Out of all four entries (giving each of you a 25% chance of winning!), the winner is…Bluewingz (aka. Margo) of Write at Home Mom. Congratulations!! Also, if you’re a freelance writer or a blogger thinking about getting into freelance writing, Bluewingz’ blog is a really good one to check out and subscribe to. Congratulations, again [...]

Book Giveawy

Just a reminder to comment this post for a chance to win a copy ofGive+Take tomorrow. Today’s your last chance to sign up to win, so get going folks!

Wonderful Sunday

I spent my day catching up on reading blogs (my Google Reader has been guilt tripping me). I did some sewing. I even read some of Pieces a short story collection with an introduction by Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower). So far, I’m enjoying it. I picked it up on a whim [...]

Ch-Ch-Changes

I mentioned not long ago (at http://bookreviw5.today.com) that there were some changes coming for Reading is Sexy. Here it is. I switched over to Blogger from Today.com for hosting and purchased the domain http://www.readingssexy.com/ You should note there is no I in the URL. I could give the whole “team” speech, but since I am [...]

Review: My War — Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell

I never heard of Colby Buzzell’s blog “My War” back in 2004 when he started blogging from Mosul. He was there with the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3/2 from Ft. Lewis. I did however receive a phone call from my boyfriend from Mosul in 2004. It wasn’t the longest call ever and he wasn’t my boyfriend [...]