Rebecca Reads

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• July 2009
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• March 2009
• February 2009
• January 2009
• December 2008
• November 2008
• October 2008
• September 2008
• August 2008
• July 2008
• June 2008
• May 2008
• April 2008

Archives by Genre:

• Non-Reviews
  • Blogging Miscellany
    • Carnivals
    • Challenges
    • Meme
    • Polls
  • Writing about Reading
    • Essays/Articles on Reading
    • Libraries
    • Pondering Reading
    • Pondering Writing Styles
    • Reading Journal
• Reviews
  • Child/Young Adult
    • Picture Books
  • Drama
  • Fiction
    • Short Stories
  • Nonfiction
    • Biography/Memoir
    • Reference Books
    • Speeches/Essays
  • Poetry

Archives by Subject:

• art
• audiobooks
• bildungsroman
• blogging
• books from my childhood
• Christianity
• classics
• dystopia
• everyday life
• fairy tales
• family
• fantasy
• favorites
• giveaway
• good versus evil
• historical fiction
• history
• HTR&W
• human character
• illustration
• imagination
• international politics
• love
• Martel-Harper Challenge
• Nobel Prize
• politics
• poverty
• Pulitzer Prize
• reading
• reading aloud
• reading choices
• reading lists
• reading to children
• really old classics
• relationships
• religion
• reread
• science
• Seth Lerer's Reader's History
• social constraints
• social problems
• translations
• universal themes
• war
• writing

Archives of All Posts:

• The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the U.S. Constitution by Linda Monk
• June in Review
• Reading Journal (July 1): Summer Reading
• My Spice of Life “Feast”: A Pool of Books to Chose From
• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
• Martel-Haper Challenge (2009 3rd Quarter)
• The Spice of Life Challenge
• Reading Journal (June 24): Learning to Read Better
• Bloggiesta Progress
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (In Chancery and To Let)
• Bloggiesta!
• Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
• Reading Journal (June 17): Reinforcements
• Robinson Crusoe Adaptations for Children
• Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
• Reading Journal (June 10): Book Clubs
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (The Man of Property)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell
• The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury by Betty MacDonald
• Reading Journal (June 4): Reading More Than One Book at a Time
• Bookworms Carnivals
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• May in Review
• Author Spotlight: Margaret Wise Brown + Giveaway Winner
• Reading Journal (May 27): Distraction
• The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
• Reading Journal (May 20): Rebecca Reads A Little Slower
• Abandoned Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare
• The Green Knowe Chronicles by L.M. Boston
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
• Utopia by Thomas More
• The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin
• My First Year of Blogging: A Contest with a Giveaway
• Reading with Kids, Defined
• Something Else Important: Book Blog Guild
• Blog Miscellany
• April in Review
• A Poem in Your Pocket: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Caldecott Corner Author Spotlight: Simms Taback
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll
• Upcoming Bookworms Carnival: Pulitzer Prizes
• How to Read and Why: Short Stories Retrospective
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Abandoned Book and Giveaway: Bridget Jones’ Diary
• Beauty and the Beast + The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Rose, Where Do You Get that Red? by Kenneth Koch + Reading with Kids Challenge
• Martel-Harper Challenge Reviews (2009 2nd Quarter)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell
• Babylon in a Jar: New Poems by Andrew Hudgins
• The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
• Comfort Reading
• Baby’s Sunday Salon, April 5
• The Norton Introduction to Poetry + My Introduction to Poetry
• A Few More Things
• March in Review
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dogs by Kitty Burns Florey + Giveaway
• A Caldecott Celebration by Leonard Marcus
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
• Martel-Harper Challenge (2009 2nd Quarter)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov + Giveaway
• Pat the Bunny and Other Interactive Books for Kids
• The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
• The Odyssey by Homer: The Story
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Christ and the New Covenant by Jeffrey R. Holland
• Martel-Harper Reminder (2009 1st Quarter)
• Golden Legacy by Leonard Marcus
• Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
• LibraryThing and Shelfari Revisited
• Stories by Tommaso Landolfi
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Really Old Classics Mini-Challenge Round-Up
• Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
• February in Review and March Reading Journal
• Friday (February) Finds: TBR Additions in February
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
• Caldecott Corner: The House in the Night by Beth Krommes, 2009 Award Winner
• Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell
• The Joy of Audiobooks
• Reminder: Giveaway for Really Old Classics Reviews
• Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
• January 2009 Month in Review and February Reading Journal
• Book Blog Search (Beta) and Other Non-Book Review Stuff
• Caldecott Corner: David Wiesner
• Martel-Harper Challenge Reviews (2009 1st Quarter)
• Material World by Peter Menzel
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Death in Children’s Literature: Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• Fundamentals of Photography by Tom Ang
• Blogging Goals, Reading Journal (January 15), and a Winner
• Weekly Geeks and the Premios Dardo/Primo Darios Award
• Death and War in Children’s Literature: Two Newberys about the Revolution
• Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• Really Old Classics Mini-Challenge + Giveaway
• Divine Songs by Isaac Watts (Poetry Friday)
• The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannesson + Giveaway
• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
• Baby’s Sunday Salon, January 4
• 2008 in Review
• December 2008 Month in Review and January 2009 Reading Journal
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
• Present and Future Challenges – 2009, 1st quarter
• Ongoing and Personal Challenges – 2009
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
• Four Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens
• Martel-Haper Challenge (First Quarter 2009)
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
• Poetry Friday: Christmas Poems
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Winner of Anthem + Swamped
• Children’s Christmas: Picture Books of the Season
• Caldecott Corner: Wintery Miscellany
• Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Anthem by Ayn Rand + A Giveaway
• Baby’s Sunday Salon, December 7
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• A Meme, A Farewell, and A Giveaway Winner
• November Month in Review and December Reading Journal
• The Planets by Dava Sobel + A Giveaway
• Caldecott Corner: Mo Willems
• Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
• A Ruined Author?
• Reading The Iliad by Homer, trans. by Robert Fagles
• The Iliad by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles: Love and Hate But Mostly Love
• The Iliad by Homer: The Story
• A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
• Lullabies
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
• Fun Facts about Homer
• Google Reader Overload! + Blog Thoughts + Memelet
• Baby’s Sunday Salon, November 9
• Poetry Friday: Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
• Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers
• Lists and Challenges Updates
• Martel-Harper Challenge (Fourth Quarter 2008)
• A Holiday Challenge Poll + Giveaway at Sophisticated Dorkines
• The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman + Happy Halloween
• Abecedaria (aka Alphabet Books)
• Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• Spooktacular Winners
• Iliad in Translation
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Three Cups of Tea: Counterpoints (Guest Post)
• Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• Spooktacular Hachette Book Giveaway (USA) and Dracula Giveaway (non-USA)
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• Ingenuity and Authority: Who Really Wrote Aesop’s Fables?
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls + Blog Action Day 2008
• Judging a Book By Its Cover Again
• Stories by Flannery O’Connor
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• Dear D____ Public Library,
• Speak, Child: The Illiad as the Infancy of Children’s Literature
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Reading Journal, October 6
• Baby’s Sunday Salon, October 5
• My Really Old Classics Choices
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
• Really Old Classics Challenge Reviews
• Really Old Classics Challenge
• Banned Books Week
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Quote from Flaubert: Pleasures of Reading
• What Are Banned Books? (Do I Favor Book Banning?)
• Harry Potter Giveaway Winner
• The End of Publishing?
• Stories by O. Henry (and Another BBAW Giveaway)
• “Used” Books Giveaways Poll
• Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• Book Blogs Rebecca Reads and Appreciates
• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (and BBAW giveaway)
• Favorite Author: Sandra Boynton’s Picture Books
• From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Favorites)
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• I’m Back and Book Miscellany
• The Jungle Book(s) by Rudyard Kipling
• The What? When? Where? Why? and How? of Challenges
• Poetry Friday: If by Rudyard Kipling
• Bookworms Carnival: You Are Never Too Old
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Introductory Thoughts)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, The Movie
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Blogging and Copyright
• Poetry Friday: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Author Weekly Geeks Answers
• Speeches of Winston Churchill
• Judging a Book by Its Cover
• Sick Day and Author Weekly Geeks
• Why ARCs?
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Stiff by Mary Roach: A Change Your Life (or Rather, Death) Book
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• Blogging Awards
• Bookworms Carnival: Relationships
• Survey Says…
• Literature in Translation
• Stories by Anton Chekhov
• LibraryThing versus Shelfari versus ?
• Stuart Little Was a Banned Book
• Political Reading
• The Student by Anton Chekhov: A Perfect Short Story
• On Writing by Stephen King
• BAFAB Week Winner
• Magazines I Would Love to Read
• Doomsday for My Book Sources
• The Arrival by Shaun Tan
• Is Reading Online is Making Us Stupid?
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• HTR&W Winner + BAFAB Week
• Thoughts on Blogging and Reading + HTR&W Giveaway Reminder
• Two Stories by Turgenev
• The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• HTR&W: What Is a Short Story?
• A Few Fairy Tale Reviews
• What is a Reader?
• HTR&W Prologue: Why Read?
• Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
• Challenges, A Personal Challenge, and a Giveaway!
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss, the illustrated version
• Too Young for Books?
• Personal History by Katharine Graham + Why I Love a Great Biography
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Bookworms Carnival: Fairy Tales
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
• HTR&W Preface and A Challenge
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Aesop’s Fables with Introduction by G.K. Chesterton
• Page for Archived Reviews By Title
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Two Books by Eric Carle
• Trends in Reading
• Graphic Novels Challenge
• Masterclass in Photography by Michael and Julien Busselle
• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• What is Reading? and Audiobook Review of The Book Thief
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
• Blogging as Storytelling and Blogging Tips from an Unprofessional
• Home Buying for Dummies and Three Other Books
• Social Issues in Literature: Depression
• The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
• Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
• Reading Habits: Who What When Where Why How?
• Childhood Reads
• A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Booking Through Thursday: Manual Labor
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Book Blogging Community
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Nonfiction Five Challenge
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Booking Through Thursday: Mayday!
• Alexander McCall-Smith
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
• The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
• Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
• The Elements of Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Painting a Novel: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson (edited by Frances Schoonmaker)
• Einstein by Walter Isaacson