Posts Tagged ‘Reading’
Cool Web 2.0 Book Sites
Posted by: Crystal King on: August 15, 2008
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In the event you haven’t stumbled on any of these yet, I thought I’d share a few of the cool new bookish/literary sites that I’ve run across.
LIbraryThing
I’m on there as Crystallyn if anyone wants to friend me. The best site (in my opinion) for cataloging books, reviews and talking with other book lovers. The book [...]
Ridonkulously Expensive Books
Posted by: Crystal King on: August 3, 2008
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A lot of the Roman history books that I want to use for my book are extremely costly. Many of them are textbooks so they are often upwards of $75 or more. Drives me crazy.
I was really hoping that being able to download some of them to my Kindle would save me some $$, and [...]
Group Motivation – The Perks of a Writing Group
Posted by: Crystal King on: July 31, 2008
At the beginning of the year I joined up with one of my fellow classmates in the novel-in-progress class that I took last summer, deciding that we would meet up every other week to crit and talk about our books. We added two more lovely women in the last few months and now we have [...]
The Sickness
Posted by: Crystal King on: March 2, 2008
- In: Writing
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I wish that I could say it was a writing sickness of some sort, but no, it’s just plain sickness. Second time in less than a month, which makes me quite unhappy indeed. My husband finds my pitiful forlorn-ness rather cute but I’m just not good being miserable.
Being sick also forces me to do something [...]
Infinitely Reading, Writing…and Living
Posted by: Crystal King on: January 4, 2008
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One of the authors on my massive lifelong booklist is Mervyn Peake, and in particular, his Titus novels, more oftenly known as Gormenghast, although that is only the title for the second book.
I’m absolutely amazed that I made it to nearly 37 years old and never knew about these books. I’m an avid fantasy [...]
Thousands and Thousands of Color-Coordinated Books
Posted by: Crystal King on: October 24, 2007
- In: Writing
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Not sure how on earth you would find what you wanted but dang it looks cool!
clipped from www.superherodesigns.com
Chris Cobb’s piece at Adobe Books, Canon Digital Rebel
Chris Cobb, a local San Francisco artist did something amazing to a bookshop called Adobe Books- he arranged every single one of the 20,000 books by color. {Can [...]
little literary-ish things
Posted by: Crystal King on: September 5, 2007
I had a great post on a creative writing exercise I taught in my weekly class and boom! of course, WP was having issues and my post never saved, sigh. I’ll get back to that at some point but in the meantime, here are some helpful tips and tricks.
Line Editing in 10 Easy Steps
On exposition: [...]
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