tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57095982128319202532011-08-23T13:30:27.023-05:00Bluestocking CafeA Place for LBWeygandt
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and life in general.Bluestockinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09489361464751639197noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709598212831920253.post-71485883356068141692010-09-10T14:22:00.000-05:002010-09-10T14:22:16.539-05:00Who's Reading Something Good? Personally, I'm always reading something good! In fact, I can't think of too many times where I have been reading something so not good that I decided to abandon the book and go in search of something else. Each summer, I become a veritable reading machine, a monster with a voracious appetite for mystery, fantasy, and romance. I thrive on traveling to time periods and lands other than my own, so I read lots of historical fiction. I am rather persnickety about the historical fiction that I read, so I prefer for the historical elements to be grounded in accurate research. This summer, I tackled <i>World Without End</i>, the sequel to <i>Pillars of the Earth</i> by Ken Follett. While the pages number close to 1,000, Follett's medieval saga about the lives of the designers, carpenters, masons, and townspeople of the fictitious Kingsbridge, England, is so captivating that the pages are far less daunting than you might imagine.<br /> Currently, I am embroiled in the murder of a genius, a maestro found poisoned in his dressing room during an intermission of the opera, La Traviata. <i>Murder at La Fenice</i> is Donna Leon's first novel in her police commisario, Guido Brunetti series. I have had the good fortune to travel to Venice, the setting of this mystery, and am enjoying the gondola rides, the winding streets and alleys that snake along the canal, and the mention of historical sites that I have seen.<br /> If you want to see what else I read this summer, please feel free to become my friend on <a href="http://goodreads.com/">goodreads.com</a>!<br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px;"><embed flashvars="id=1339679&shelf=summer-2010&title=lbweygandt's bookshelf: summer-2010&host=www.goodreads.com&sort=asin&order=a&params=amazon,,dest_site,goodreads" height="300" quality="high" src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/widget/widget2.swf" width="190" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><br /></div><div style="display: none;"><div style="-moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; border: 1px solid #d7d7d7; margin-bottom: 4px; padding: 10px; width: 165px;"><span style="color: #aaaaaa; font-style: italic;">lbweygandt's bookshelf: summer-2010</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2931310.Roseanna" style="float: left; padding: 2px;" title="Roseanna (Martin Beck #1)"><img alt="Roseanna" border="0" height="70" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255843939s/2931310.jpg" width="50" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7117958-mr-rosenblum-dreams-in-english" style="float: left; padding: 2px;" title="Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English"><img alt="Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English" border="0" height="70" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277341088s/7117958.jpg" width="50" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4278632-woman-with-a-birthmark" style="float: left; padding: 2px;" title="Woman with a Birthmark (Inspector Van Veeteren #4)"><img alt="Woman with a Birthmark" border="0" height="70" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256068727s/4278632.jpg" width="50" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5064.World_Without_End" style="float: left; padding: 2px;" title="World Without End"><img alt="World Without End" border="0" height="70" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255589160s/5064.jpg" width="50" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6892870-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornet-s-nest" style="float: left; padding: 2px;" title="The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)"><img alt="The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" border="0" height="70" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275608947s/6892870.jpg" width="50" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5060378-the-girl-who-played-with-fire" style="float: left; padding: 2px;" title="The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)"><img alt="The Girl Who Played with Fire" border="0" height="70" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255570680s/5060378.jpg" width="50" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1339679-lbweygandt" style="color: #aaaaaa; font-size: .9em;">More of lbweygandt's books ยป</a></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1339679-lbweygandt" target="_blank"><img alt="lbweygandt's summer-2010 book recommendations, reviews, favorite quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists" border="0" height="32" src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/widget/widget_logo.gif" title="lbweygandt's summer-2010 book recommendations, reviews, favorite quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists" width="190" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5709598212831920253-7148588335606814169?l=bluestockingcafe.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bluestockinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09489361464751639197noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709598212831920253.post-2507028600898608072009-08-28T14:48:00.000-05:002009-10-06T08:37:57.165-05:00Creating Your Personal Book List<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Book List Power Point Due Dates:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">All Booklists are due no later than 8:00 a.m. on Friday, October 9th.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2fRqxFX9qjU/Spg6B2yhl4I/AAAAAAAAAAg/hTd3i1GzUv4/s1600-h/Woman+Reading.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 195px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2fRqxFX9qjU/Spg6B2yhl4I/AAAAAAAAAAg/hTd3i1GzUv4/s200/Woman+Reading.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375109958828398466" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">"We read to know we are not alone."<br /> --C.S. Lewis<br /><br />Choosing the right book is like choosing a friend. Take the next few weeks to put together a list of books that reflect your interests so that you'll find pleasure as we read and share this year in class. The more of yourself that you give to this project, the greater the reward.<br /><br /> View the <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/74pzi8k5a4">Powerpoint</a> for Book List Criteria<br /></span>Photo Courtesy of <div cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yives/3025506130/"><a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yives/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/yives/</a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5709598212831920253-250702860089860807?l=bluestockingcafe.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bluestockinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09489361464751639197noreply@blogger.com1