Category Archives: books
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Excuse Me, Is That a Mixed Fiber?
Posted on January 15, 2011 by gigigriffis in books, ideologyI’ve been on one of my frequent reading kicks, which has been a nice switch from the movie kick I was on in late December when things with the business slowed. Said reading kick has resulted in not only increased bubble baths, reading snuggled up in bed and tea consumption (which goes well with reading), [...]
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Booklist 2011 Edition: Tales of Ladies, Lies & Legends
Posted on December 31, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksIt’s 2011, which I anticipate will be a year of big changes, big dreams, big pushes and lots of good feeling. In said anticipation and because I loved keeping track of my reading last year, I’ve compiled a list of books that either A. I didn’t get to last year or B. have been since [...]
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Ze Finale: Featuring Desperate British People & A Rabbit in a Housecoat
Posted on December 28, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksSometime toward the beginning of the year, I created a new and improved booklist, of which I managed to read a good 56+ books this year (the plus is due to a couple not having dates, which leaves me unable to confirm the “this year” statement). And, yes, I’m counting partials. They were painful enough [...]
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Rwanda, Israel and a Strange America
Posted on October 20, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksYet another update on my yearly reading regime: mostly the past few months have been a time of re-reading. Re-reading old favorites: The Blind Assassin, the rest of Harry Potter, The Poisonwood Bible. Of course, after those amazing feats of literary genius, it’s hard to read much else. I started in on several new reads, [...]
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Full Price
Posted on October 3, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksI know I haven’t given you a book update in a long while, and the reason is this: I’ve been on a re-reading spree. After reading a remarkable book, it’s hard to pick up one that is unknown to you–it could be mediocre, it could be a disaster–so, instead, it becomes easy to re-read. Something [...]
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8 More Books About Singing Midgets, Near-Death Experiences with Angry Genies and Exploding People Who Later Do the Dirty
Posted on July 25, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksI’ve decided (mostly because I am boring and have little else to say at the moment) that it is time for another update on the ever-fabulous booklist. Last we left off, it was May 29th and I had dabbled in the worlds of unhappy elephants, psychic divorcees and lonely twenty-something men (oh wait, that last [...]
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Good Book (Bitter is the New Black), New Things (Content Strategy)
Posted on June 8, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksI guess I should give you a belated update on last week’s Read Good Books and Learn New Things, yes? First off, I read approximately one and a half books, so don’t get too excited about the long list of Amazing Literature that I’m now offering up. Do get excited about the fact that both [...]
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Week Five: Read Good Books, Learn New Things
Posted on May 30, 2010 by gigigriffis in books, ideologyWeek five is a combination of Read Good Books and Learn New Things. Two things I think I can accomplish both together and separately. Things I plan on doing in order to keep these resolutions: 1. Choose books that I’m looking forward to (not just books people have recommended and I’m therefore going to read, [...]
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Booklist Update: 1 Psychic Divorcee’, 1 Rehab Clinic and So Many Lonely Men
Posted on May 29, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksI’ll start by saying that I purged my booklist significantly. After starting my experiment in self improvement, one of the things that stood out to me is this: I read books I don’t like. Or I add books to my list that I know I won’t like. No more, though. I got rid of a [...]
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Water for Elephants
Posted on April 24, 2010 by gigigriffis in booksI asked a book rep once, since he sees so many published books, what he thought the characteristic of a publishable book was. He said “good writing,” which I thought was a cop out and categorically untrue (just read The Di Vinci Code or Marley and Me and you’ll see that writing capability has approximately [...]
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