October 2011
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“Upper and lower case? The term comes from the position of the loose metal or...”
– Just My Type {A Book About Fonts} by Simon Garfield
This is why I love good non-fiction. Random seemingly useless facts make me insanely happy. So far, Just My Type is fantastic!
Does anyone have any other amazing non-fiction recommendations for me?
L xxx
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Word Nerds: Mind Mapping
As some of you may recall, I recently started an internship/student teaching kind of position at an awesome tiny private school! I love my job and wish it could be full time instead of me rushing about and working and trying to go to university… When I procrastinate from doing my uni work (like by writing this post) I have started to do work work. Like make this pretty handout for my V/V...
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L: The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
Lately I’ve noticed that, while I read most things pretty fast, I can gobble up one of these non-fictiony books in an afternoon. I love reading a book where I’m given a nice, tangible connection to the author and her real life set of characters and I love seeing what actual people are actually doing. Maybe I’m just nosey but these kinds of books just make me happy, so I guess...
How To Talk So Kids Can Learn
I haven’t mentioned this on the blog yet (having had no time at all to do such things…) but my peeps on twitter know that I scored the most awesome job in the world this semester. I was hired on as an intern/admin person/random filler in teacher helper at a really awesome tiny school! It is the perfect job for me right now and I’m determined to do it the best I can. I want to go on to do my...
New Blog. New Aims.
This is 2.0. We learnt a lot from running a book blog. What works (for us) and what doesn’t. What causes unnecessary stress and freak outs and what provides warm happy bookish glows. It’s been almost a year and we have officially decided to make the move to a new, low maintance, fun blog. Low pressure to the max. When we had not much to do (summer vacation *sigh*) BaffledBooks was...
The Old English Baron: Clara Reeve
I would be lying if I didn’t say that this was a painful read. I am becoming more and more certain that Gothic Literature, Pre-Victorian and Victorian, are really not my thing and I found myself putting the text down. Sadly I haven’t finished it, and probably won’t anytime in the near future…Ah well. You don’t know what you like until you try it I guess.
My biggest problem with the novel is the...
Hurricane: L. Ron Hubbard
Bring on the action…Pulp Fiction style! As much as I enjoy reading novels and listening to audiobooks, I don’t always feel like engaging with something that is too taxing or goes on too long. So when I recently discovered two multicast performance audiobooks from Galaxy Press in my mailbox…I was very happy! Hurricane and Sky Birds Dare!
Hurricane has all the requirements of good old fashioned...
