Archive for the ‘*FourStarBooks’ Category
West African Authors: Wife of the Gods, an African in Greenland, A Long Way Gone
Posted by: Eva on: November 17, 2009
My very last term of college, I took a class called “West African Politics” with a professor from Cote d’Ivoire. It was an awesome class-the professor expected us to be prepared and intelligent, and was kind of mean to some of the poor freshman who had signed up unawares, but I learned so much. [...]
Green Books Campaign: Style, Naturally (thoughts)
Posted by: Eva on: November 10, 2009
Today, I’m participating in an event sponsored by Eco Libris: the Green Books campaign. They’ve requested that I include the following at the beginning of my post:
Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the [...]
Sunday Salon: the Wow-October’s-Over! Post
Posted by: Eva on: November 1, 2009
- In: *FiveStarBooks| *FourStarBooks| AboutBooks| Challenges| Classic| Contemporary| Fiction| GLBT| Historical| Intl| IntlCulture| IntlRelations| LostinTrans.| Non-Fiction| Novella09| Philosophy| R.I.P IV| Reviews| Science| Science09| Sunday Salon| Thriller| Travel| Women's Studies| WorldCitizenship| YA
- 24 Comments
Can you believe today is November 1st? I missed last week’s Sunday Salon (although I did a Friday salon, lol) in the post-Dewey’s Read-a-Thon madness, so I have quite a few books to talk about. I’ve decided to save the graphic books I’ve been reading for another post, but that leaves us with 16. [...]
‘Friday Salon’: the Early Post
Posted by: Eva on: October 23, 2009
I decided that since tomorrow is Dewey’s Read-a-Thon, there’s no way I’d be up for doing a Sunday Salon post this week. But I don’t want the books I’ve read since the last one to go by the wayside. So I spent the morning finishing up the books I was reading, so I’d [...]
Here At the End of the World We Learn to Dance (thoughts)
Posted by: Eva on: October 20, 2009
First off, I’m doing an experiment today. You know all those articles saying being online so much has shortened our attention spans? Well, I think Twitter has shortened mine. Usually, if I’m at home I have Twitter open, even when I’m reading, and I’ll stop reading in order to tweet something. I also have my [...]
In Loving Memory
