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Merlin Made Real: The Crystal Cave and Hollow Hills

Phyl — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:58:14 +0000

After reading Stewart's books, Merlin sprang to vivid life. And as the story unfolded through his eyes, somehow it made more sense and seemed more plausible [...]

Journaling and Bibliotherapy

Phyl — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:56:20 +0000

Notebook Collection by Dvortygirl

I just found something interesting from Melanie at The Indextrious Reader. She’s one of my Twitter contacts and a Canadian librarian whose blog I just love (you’ll see it on my blogroll), and now she’s started a new business: Four Rooms Creative Self-Care.

On her blog she describes it this [...]

Meaningful Blog Awards

Phyl — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:04:17 +0000

Here are the ten things that make me happy [...]

Minds Alive on the Shelves Friday Puzzler

Phyl — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:04:28 +0000

A new crossword puzzle is up at the Minds Alive on the Shelves blog today, following Lisa’s promise that she’d have a new puzzle there every Friday.

This week’s topic is Book Terms and Titles. I’m halfway through and am stuck on a few of them (love the challenge!), but I’m not going to check [...]

A Book a Week and Edge of Seventeen blogs do buddy review of “Ice”

Phyl — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:01:39 +0000

What a great idea this is! Kiirstin at A Book a Week and Mandy at Edge of Seventeen just did a “buddy review” of Ice, the latest YA book by Sarah Beth Durst.

Each one first did their own review of the book itself, and then they interviewed each other about their opinions. I don’t [...]

Minds Alive on the Shelves new location!

Phyl — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:24:35 +0000

Lisa does a lot of reading, since she travels so much, and writes really insightful and interesting book reviews, as well as participating in other book events. I get a lot of great ideas for what I want to read, by keeping up with her. [...]

Free E-Day

Phyl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:48:34 +0000

Some of my Twitter acquaintances are staging Free E-Day tomorrow, December 1st. This is a day to celebrate Indie Culture, featuring plenty of art that will be given away for free. [...]

World Religion Reading Challenge for 2010

Phyl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:54:39 +0000

It's called the World Religion Challenge, and it's for the purpose of reading about the various religions. This can be non-fiction books, novels, poetry, actual religious texts, whatever relates. [...]

Letters of Early Explorers and other goodies

Phyl — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:23:21 +0000

Today I’m doing some more browsing through search engines, and this week the search term I’m using is “book information.” And again I’ve been finding some little things that are interesting. [Author's Note: the one I think is the neatest is #4 below, so if you don't want to read anything long, [...]

Browsing and Books

Phyl — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:34 +0000

HAPPY DIWALI TO MY INDIAN FRIENDS!

You may have noticed that I haven’t been able to do my Sunday morning browse through my blogroll in recent months. Life has just been too packed with STUFF, unfortunately. I may see if I can do a couple peeks at a time every day or two, rather [...]