One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
Random.org selected comment number ten as the winner in my book giveaway. Congrats Nathan. Now just let me know how to get it to you. I will mail it if you like or, since we live in the same city I could drop it off for you or you could come pick it up. Just [...]
First: this is the last call for entries for the book giveaway, two posts down. I will pick a winner (using random.org) this evening after 8pm.
I have been kicking around a few thoughts about budgeting and frugality lately for several reasons. One: because we live on a very tight budget because our income is severely [...]
I don’t often blog about my lifestyle but felt like sharing some things today. My family and I live in a 1000 square foot, 90 year old home in East Boise. Our neighborhood is a delight with a wide variety of homes, huge trees, and a park just two blocks away. We have no garage [...]
I was recently reminded that a fellow bibliophile is sending me a book. Just as a gift. Just because she wants me to be able to read it. Just thinking about it makes me happy. And this reminded me that it has been a long time since I gave a book away on this site. [...]
I’m just going to post a few more photos here. I’ll have a lot more over on Facebook. (facebook.com/amandakpatchin)
Fair warning: the next few posts will be all about wedding stuff with nary a book in sight!
For those of you who don’t know, my little sister Quinn got married on Saturday. To save money we hosted the wedding at our house. Our home is small but our backyard is huge so it worked out. [...]
Here is the full text of what I intended to say at Ignite Boise 2. I maybe got about half of this out and it was probably a bit garbled too. Maybe is should just stick to writing…
Good evening. My name is Amanda Patchin and I’m here to talk about books.
On January First 2008 I [...]
Later today I will try to have the text of my presentation from last night up here. Then you can read what I said and also, what I didn’t have time to say.
Thanks to any new visitors for stopping by. Please browse the archives to read about my 200 books adventure.
Cheers!
From the estimable C.S. Lewis:
There is no clearer distinction between the literary and the unliterary. It is infallible. The literary man rereads, other men simply read. A novel once read is to them like yesterday’s newspaper. One may have hopes of a man who has never read The Odyssey or Malory, or Boswell, or Pickwick. [...]
This reading list is for my husband who wants to be a more well-rounded reader. His own inclinations are to read almost exclusively books of adventure – true stories like Shakelton’s Endurance – and to read modern books of history about battles and wars like Strong Men Armed and Black Hawk Down. He asked me [...]