16 Tasks – 15
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 15 – Boxing Day
Tasks for St. Stephen’s Day / Boxing Day — BONUS task: box up all the Christmas detritus, decorations, or box up that stuff you’ve been meaning to get rid of, or donate, etc. and take a picture and post it. Won’t be donating this, but anyway, here’s the result of my after-Christmas house cleaning: … […]
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Candlelight Breakfast and a Book
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 3 – St. Martin’s Day – and Square 15 – Newtonmas Tasks for St. Martin’s Day: Write a Mother Goose-style rhyme or a limerick; the funnier the better. –OR– Take a picture of the book you’re currently reading, next to a glass of wine, or the drink of […]
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Ngaio Marsh: Tied Up in Tinsel
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 15 – Boxing Day Book themes for Boxing Day/St. Stephen’s Day: Read anything where the main character has servants (paid servants count, NOT unpaid) or is working as a servant him-/ herself. Well, I guess one could count Roderick Alleyn as a public servant, seeing as he’s a […]
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Terry Pratchett / Ian Stewart / Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld
The Power of Narrativium Murder by Death and BrokenTune have essentially summed up a lot of the points I’d want to make about The Science of Discworld. (What a misnomer that title is, incidentally — and not only because the science part is really concerned with “Roundworld,” i.e., our world … the science part in […]
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Terry Pratchett / Ian Stewart / Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld – Reading Progress Update: 135 of 385 Pages
Well, so far the science writing is pretty neat for what it set out to do, and this one will definitely replace my Newtonmas read for the 16 Festive Tasks. Still, can I say that I nevertheless prefer the Discworld chapters? Final Review: HERE Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1622320/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-135-out-of-385-pages Narrativium: Where the Falling Angel Meets the […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 15 – Boxing Day: Cat in a Box
Tasks for St. Stephen’s Day/Boxing Day: Show us your boxes of books! –OR– If you have a cat, post a picture of your cat in a box. The current feline denizen of my home — Teddy — won’t be caught dead in anything enclosing him, but Holly loved boxes and was, consequently, in heaven whenever […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Updates
I’ll be tracking my completed books, tasks, and points comprehensively here. The Markers: Stack of Books: Books read Red Bows and Ribbons: Other Tasks completed The Squares, Books and Other Tasks: Square 1: November 1st: All Saints Day / Día de los Muertos & Calan Gaeaf Book themes for Día de Muertos and […]
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Val McDermid: Forensics
Investigative Journalism and True Crime Writing Masquerading as Science I had long rants going through my head on pretty much every page of this book while I was reading, but bottom line, it just doesn’t deserve the attention of my detailing them. I like McDermid’s crime fiction (most of it, anyway) and I’d very much […]
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Val McDermid: Forensics – Reading Progress Update: 137 of 320 Pages
Sigh. I’d been interested in this book because I’d been wondering whether McDermid, with her background in journalism and crime fiction — but not science — had really, actually written a science book. The answer is, she hasn’t. This is journalism, somewhere between National Geographic and the Notable British Trials book series, with other true […]
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The Festive Tasks in Calendar Form – December
Reblogged from: Murder by Death Posting this just in case anyone else finds it useful. November is here. Square 5: Book themes for Advent: Read a book with a wreath or with pines or fir trees on the cover –OR– Read the 4th book from a favorite series, or a book featuring 4 […]
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