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I'm sniffling and coughing behind a cherry laminate desk. And, I'm hoping that the day will go by quickly so I can go to a wake this afternoon and get home early to go to bed and sniffle and cough there, but with a book and away from the phone.

Sorry Martin, never read him. BUT, not 5 minutes after I read this post, I was poking around Book Browse and came across this giveaway for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. So, if I win the book, I'll read it. Or maybe I'll pick it up in my next book-buying spree.

Hah! Sounds like a seminar I attended at a convention last week. It was entitled "Designing and Implementing Orientation and Training Programs". So, I thought it was going to be about creating an orientation for new employees. Instead, it turned out being a session filled with "games" that...

I love Crystal Reports! I wish I was working with it right now. Today, I'm trying to determine how best to resign my position. (Imagine Charlie Brown - UGH!)

Just started The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

Finished A False Sense of Well Bring by Jeanne Braselton last night. Lovely book with a loose ending that worked perfectly. The characters were vivid (and all "real"), and I really enjoyed the silly/touching moments between them.

Thank you for the suggestions. I'm going to bring a list to work for her on Monday!

A friend of mine has a ton of sci-fi books and has offered to let me "pick and choose" whatever books I want from the collection. The problem is that I haven't really read much sci-fi except for the occasional Star Wars book. I asked her to check for Ursula LeGuin (I own Dispossessed, but...

I am also a fan of Josh Rubin's Coolhunting . Plus, I've always liked Boing Boing . I could always list more too. I have WAY too many bookmarks.

FYI, the link on the home page for "Book News" leads to the "Suggestions and Voting" section in the forums.

The blue ones from Discover are the best (I use them too). Primarily, though, I use a cardstock bookmark that comes from my favorite secondhand bookshop. They always stuff one in the books I buy - so it's always the handiest thing to use.

I didn't like it much at all... It could've been that I saw it way after the hoopla (yay dvds). I was mortified when I saw this in the April 25 issue of Newsweek: It's Official: The Film Is Freakin' Sweet Idaho loves 'Napoleon Dynamite' so much, its state legislature formally commended...

smoked bacon & egg ice cream... :eek:

I read Middlesex last fall and loved it so much that I blindly bought The Virgin Suicides. I just read it last month and almost feel the need to re-read it. For some reason, I wonder if I just don’t get it. I found the collective first person to be a bit distracting at first, and I also had...

Happy birthday! Just remember the best part of turning 25 in the states - auto insurance rates drop!

I was thinking along the same lines. If you google her name, she is a book reviewer. It's very distracting, since the boards are being spammed with these reviews.

The aisles need to be wide. If I can't sit down on the floor to flip through a book or scan the lower shelves without leaving room for people to walk by, then I leave. And it needs good ventilation! Recently went to a second hand place that was called BookZellers, which my boyfriend and I...

I recently had a dream that I was in Vegas and my ex was trying to steal my guitar. What's bizarre is that I don't play the guitar, but he did. I suspect it's set in Vegas because it's been about a year since I was there last, and I went with him and he was a true prick the whole trip. (oi...

I agree with Wolhay. I don't purchase dvds often, but "Clerks", by far and away is a film I have to have in my collection. I force all of my friends to watch it. It is one of my all time favorites. I was never fond of "Dogma".

An author named Earnest Vincent Wright wrote an entire story without using the letter E once. It is called "Gadsby". Wright wrote that it was difficult to introduce "young women" in the story, as he couldn't use any number over six and under thirty. :D It's an interesting endeavor...