Category: books
I love writing. I’m not sure what it is about writing that gets me so excited. It’s almost like I have all these ideas whirling around in my head and I have to write them down to get them out. There’s something very satisfying about that. There’s also something gratifying about looking at something that […]
So I read this on CBC’s website today: B.C. author challenges Canadians to sign up for TRC reading challenge Jennifer Manuel wants 1,000 people to pledge by National Aboriginal Day The Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a commission “organized by the parties to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement” and “was part of a […]
I started tracking the books I’m reading on GoodReads this year and it made a nice summary of the 18 books I read (i.e. surpassing my goal of 15 books), so I just stole screenshots from that report. #Efficiency The above list includes: 4 books that I read for one of the courses that I taught 5 […]
So it’s just past the halfway point in the year and I figure that means it’s a good time to do a check-in on my goals for the year! Of my 15 goals, 4 goals are completed: Organize all my closets Set up a new investment plan Pay off 7.5% of my mortgage principal – I’ve actually […]
Making this year’s list of books that I read was much easier than last year, since I started using GoodReads to track my reading ((If you know me and we aren’t yet friends on GR, feel free to friend me!)) Fiction books I finished in 2014: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead by Orson […]
Because of school, I didn’t get to do as much fun reading as I would like to have in 2013, but I did manage to read a few during my breaks (i.e., before classes started in January, over the summer, and this Christmas). For school, I did a lot more reading of journal articles than […]
As I was looking at my favourite tweets for that last blog posting, I realized that I hadn’t blogged about Cath’s short story, which was recently published in LabLit. For the uninitiated ((Which included me until Cath introduced me to Lab Lit by publishing there.)): “lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and […]
Now that I have copious amounts of time on my hands, I’m doing what I did the last time I suddenly had copious amounts of time on my hands – reading all the books ever! Since finishing school, I’ve read one complete book (The Bridge to Teribithia – which I read for the book club […]
Copies of my brand new textbook! I have to say, it’s pretty amazing to hold this book – the product of so much work – in my very own hands! For those of you who have been asking where you can buy yourself a copy of this fine book ((I.e., Rick.)), you can get it […]
Here is a quick summary of my blog and Twitter stats for 2012 ((To see previous years’ nerd stats postings, click the year in the table.)): 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 % change from 2011 Blog postings: 423 357 344 380 201 -47% Tweets: 2,227 1,815 2302 3,625 875 ((note to self: You started Tweeting […]