Merry Christmas to all! Here are five Christmas gifts that I am giving this year.
1. Rocking Motorcycle: This is going to my nephew. He is only nine months old, so he’s a little young for it, but I can’t wait to give it to him.
2. Food Face Plate: I found this on Perpetual Kid. I think my nieces will have lots of fun with them.
3. Bon Jovi: Well, I didn’t buy Bon Jovi for someone, but close enough. I got my friend Vicki in our Secret Santa gift exchange, and I bought her the new Bon Jovi book, When We Were Beautiful, and their new CD, The Circle. I think she’s going to love them! I know I do!
4. Jimmy Buffett: Again, I didn’t actually buy Jimmy Buffett for someone. I did buy his new CD for my grandma. She’s kind of a cool grandma.
5. Books: What would Christmas be without a book as a gift from a librarian? I bought my mom the new Lisa Scottoline book. Since Lisa Scottoline is one of her favorite authors, I know she’s going to love it!
I hope that you and yours have a very happy holiday. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2010!
Until this year, I had never heard of reading challenges. Now, I feel like they’re everywhere. Maybe not everywhere, but now I just am paying more attention. I found a reading challenge that sounds really fun, and at the same time, it’s manageable. The What’s in a Name? Challenge asks you to read in 6 different categories. This is the third year of the challenge, and this year it’s being run by Beth of Beth Fish Reads.
Here are the categories, and some of the ideas for books that I’ve come up with.
1. A book with a food in the title:
Bread Alone by Judi Hendricks
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Better Than Chocolate by Susan Waggoner
Belle in the Big Apple by Brooke Parkhurst
Carrot Cake Murder by Joanna Fluke
I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir by Giulia Melucci
2. A book with a body of water in the title:
The Ocean Inside by Janna McMahan
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Sea House by Esther Freud
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
3. A book with a title (queen, president) in the title:
The Doctor’s Wife by Elizabeth Brundage
Wedlock : The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
The King of Ragtime by Larry Karp
The Prince of Nantucket by Jan Goldstein
4. A book with a plant in the title:
Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange by Amanda Smyth
The Penny Tree by Holly Kennedy
The Brambles by Eliza Minot
Wildflowers by Robin Jones Gunn
5. A book with a place name (city, country) in the title:
Capturing Paris by Katharine Davis
Prague by Arthur Phillips
Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Honolulu by Alan Brennert
6. A book with a music term in the title:
A Song I Knew By Heart by Brett Lott
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan
The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
Music of Falling Water by Julia Oliver
Here are a few of my favorite movie quotes.
- “Ted Nugent called. He wants his shirt back.” Ocean’s 11
- “Oh man, my dick’s on fire.” The Recruit
- “Let’s cut the chit chat, a-hole.” The Rock
- “He’s a nutbag. For all we know, he’s dancing around in his grandma’s
underwear, rubbing peanut butter all over himself.” Seven - “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack
of cigarettes, it’s dark & we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.” The Blues Brothers
What is your favorite movie quote?
You always hear the cliche, “Never judge a book by it’s cover.” With such great titles out there, how can you not? I’ve always been one of those people who judges a book by the cover. It’s probably a sin to do so as a librarian, but I can’t help it.
When I’m at the library or a bookstore, I browse the shelves and displays and see what jumps out at me. It is often the book covers that catch my eye. I’ll add them to my LibraryThing catalog because I like the cover and want to read the book. Here are five book covers that I love.
I love Twitter. I have been using it for a little over a year. I use it to ask questions and get help from the people that follow me. I use to it to stay connected to what’s new and upcoming in the library world. I use it to connect with other scrapbookers. I use it to see what people are reading. I need to use Twitter more to have conversations with people about all of these things.
Here are five random tweets from my Twitter account.
- RT @brewinlibrarian: Libs must create center of conversation in the community. “Be where stuff happens” #il2009
- Going through my completed scrapbooks to see what I like & what I don’t like. #AliYT
- Thinking about future blog posts based on a non-fiction “project” book. Kind of excited about the prospect of it.
- arg. Trying (in vain) to add a LibraryThing widget to my WordPress blog. Can’t seem to do it.
- Just recommended Into the Wild to a patron who’s trying to get her son hooked on reading.
So how do you use Twitter? What are some of your random tweets? What do you like about Twitter? What don’t you like about Twitter?
