The Reading Spree

Flipping pages and finding common denominators

  • Snippets #4.

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    This week’s edition of lovely online reads: Such a good question. How can we improve the cities we call home? (I wanna buy this one.) What makes our cities a better place for us?, betterymagazine.com, June 2012 (estimate) Don’t focus too much on size. Sometimes, short is real good. Dr. Aira: In Defense of Short Books,…

  • Snippets #3.

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    This week, I’m serving up the following links, organized by date: Men, take note. (Numbers 4, 6 and 8 are book characters.) The 10 Best Fictional Boyfriends, Chelsea Fagan, Thought Catalog, September 25, 2012 I completely forgot that November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! Tried it back in 2004, but quit when I realized my plot…

  • Snippets #2.

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    For this week’s Snippets, we have the following awesome online reads, tweets and news bites (oh, found a few stragglers, too): I regret not looking for him when I was at the Saigon Main Post Office! The Man Who Writes Love Letters: A Day with Saigon’s Last Public Letter Writer, Fiona Ehiers, Spiegel Online International, March 7, 2007…

  • Bookworming In Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam!

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    Traveled on my own for three weeks through three Southeast Asian countries – and made a few bookstore stops

  • Catching Up, and “Snippets” – September-November 2012.

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    I’m making up for this blog’s unintentional two-month silence with a few entries (which I’m working on right now!), along with a new weekly (well, hopefully) update called Snippets. Snippets will contain links to interesting book-, reading- and publishing-related online articles and blogs, found via my RSS feed and social media (mainly Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).…