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I don’t see how April can possibly be over, but my calendar tells me it’s May 1st. Therefore, the April 2009 edition of Jennifer’s Read Together challenge has come to an end. Here’s how things went in the Callapidder household:
The goals I listed in my original post were as follows:
1) Read an average of 10 [...]
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“We shape our tools and afterward our tools shape us.”
- Marshall McLuhan
This week, I’m participating in a blog tour of a new book called Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith. To be honest, when I finished the book, my mind was swimming a little. The author, Shane Hipps, touches on many ways our lives [...]
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My good friend Jennifer is hosting a great reading challenge called Read Together. You can get more details at her site, and I encourage you to check it out and jump in on the fun. The challenge starts today and runs through the month of April.
The premise is simple: Set some concrete goals involving reading [...]
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I’m not sure why I do this to myself. I guess it’s because I like to see my children’s faces light up with excitement. I love to encourage their love of books and reading. And sometimes, I just want to get through a trip to Target with minimal distraction.
What is it I do? I buy [...]
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Time for another edition of What’s On Your Nightstand?, a monthly carnival hosted by 5 Minutes for Books, in which we all talk about what we’re reading, or what we just read, or what we’re about to read. Click the graphic to visit the carnival headquarters and check out the other participants.
I just finished Dark [...]
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5 Minutes for Books is holding their monthly Kids’ Picks carnival today, in which we are invited to share the books that have recently captured our children’s interests. Since I had so much fun interviewing C. back in November, I thought I’d do it again. In the past six months or so, he’s read a [...]
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Today is the fourth Tuesday of the month, which means that 5 Minutes for Books is hosting their monthly What’s On Your Nightstand? carnival. Click the graphic if you want to see what others are reading or if you’d like to participate.
So, what am I reading these days? Well, in addition to the gobs of [...]
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Way back in high school, I was assigned a project on the classic tome, Moby Dick. I admit, I struggled with it. I realize the novel is highly regarded by many, but to 16-year-old me, it was too long and too boring. I made a valiant effort to read the entire thing, but in the [...]
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The gang over at 5 Minutes for Books hosts a monthly carnival called Kids’ Picks, in which bloggers are invited to share which books their kids are reading or have recently enjoyed. This month, I thought I’d let L. tell you about some of his favorite books. So I’ll just get out of the way [...]
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I’m going with twelve books this time around, 5 non-fiction and 7 fiction. I figure that at a little less than 1 book per week, I should be able to pull it off. I’ve also agreed to a few blog tours, so a couple more books might end up getting thrown into the [...]
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