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Bookish Rant: Revisiting Re-Reads
Amongst all of us book lovin’ fiends around here, it’s no surprise that we all read every- and anything that looks and sounds promising. The first time you read a great book can be nearly indefinable...
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Bookish Rave: What Reader Species Are You?
Here at BLI, we often ask how one can differentiate between a Book Lover and mere Reader. It turns out we were thinking to small. Laura E. Kelley realized there is an entire taxonomy of Readers and...
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Bookish Rant: Unconventional Endings Need Not Apply
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it” -Edmund Dantes....
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Bookish Rant or Raves: Negative Review or Personality Disorder?
I fervently adore negative reviews. A negative review provides the perfect framework to fully interact with a book. That pissed off reviewer hates things about a book that I loved, is outraged by...
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Bookish Rants and Raves:Desperately finishing a book
How desperate have you been to finish a book? Have you been late for work? Late for school? Late for a date? How about late for a flight? Recently I read The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling. I happened...
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Bookish Rants or Raves: What happened with my 2012 anticipated books?
Lists are fun. Unless they are lists of housekeeping chores, and then, well, never mind. (Move along, nothing to see here) Book lists are fun. How many “best books of 2012″ lists have you checked out?...
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Holiday Rants or Raves: My (Love)/Hate Relationship with New Year’s Eve
Hey Everyone! By now you all know how much I love the holidays and what a big Christmas-aholic I am, so it may come as a surprise, but I absolutely HATE New Year’s Eve. Why? Because it irritates me...
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Reading and Knitting: When the two meet!
Hello! My name is Caroline and I’m a knitting Addict. Well, I’m also a book addict but that was a given *wink*. At first I thought these two passions would be two different things, I was either...
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Bookish Rants or Raves: Turkey Thursdays, Black Fridays
Painting, “First Thanksgiving” by Jean Ferris Ah, Thanksgiving. The day of turkey, pumpkin pie, parades, football, and James Bond marathons. This particular North American holiday, notably secular...
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Bookish Rants or Raves: Why do I read horrible books?
“Why did you bother finishing that if you hated it?” I get asked this question quite a lot, and it is a fair one. So why do I read horrible books? I have many reasons: I don’t like feeling my time...
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Celebrate the Freedom to Read!
Have you ever read a Banned Book? I bet you have. You might have even read a banned book to your child! Because it’s not all about sex. Violence gets challenged. Speaking truth to power gets...
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Bookish Rant: How Much Does an Ebook Cost?
When you go to your bookseller of choice and buy an ebook, it costs whatever the dealer says it costs. Anything from free to $14.99 or the equivalent per country. The real caveat isn’t the different...
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