Comments on: Sunday Salon: The Number (and the number of books in my house!)

By: Facing Abuse » Blog Archive » Weekly Geeks 2: Son of Book Reviews

Facing Abuse » Blog Archive » Weekly Geeks 2: Son of Book Reviews — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:41:07 +0000

[...] linking to other people’s reviews of a book I’ve reviewed. Like, if you blogged about The Number: A Completely Different Way To Think About The Rest Of Your Life, you could tell me and I would say “Hey! Somebody else wrote about this too, look at [...]

By: Facing Abuse » Blog Archive » Struggling with money

Facing Abuse » Blog Archive » Struggling with money — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:40:13 +0000

[...] I do, however, make terrible impulsive purchases, especially at the bookstore and grocery store. I don’t really regret many of my book purchases, mind you. But I tend to go to the grocery store and freak out because I’m not sure whether I want this kind of juice or that kind of juice, and oh the yogurt looks good, and hm, now I don’t really want the cheese I came here to buy but I should get it cause I was already going to, and I end up getting both of the juices so I won’t have to choose and the yogurt even though I don’t really want it because what if I get home and I really DO want it and then I’m sad! [...]

By: danica

danica — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:20:19 +0000

I hear that! But it’s not as bad as it seems. Now it’s just annoying to not have something I really want to read. Maybe I should blog about this stuff

By: Wisteria

Wisteria — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:21:50 +0000

I was worried I had too many books yet to read, but I think your 30% sounds about right. Anyway, you never want to run out of something to read. My biggest nightmare. Imagine the anxiety on top of anxiety.
Yikes!!!

Wisteria’s last blog post at their site, bookwormsdinner.blogspot.com: Sunday Salon-Franklin and Lucy

By: danica

danica — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:28:52 +0000

dew: thanks! here are links: http://eft.fabglitter.org/blog/weeklygeeks1.jpg http://eft.fabglitter.org/blog/weeklygeeks2.jpg http://eft.fabglitter.org/blog/weeklygeeks3.jpg

By: dew

dew — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:50:57 +0000

I’m afraid I can’t see the pictures you mentioned in my blog. I like the new look of your blog, though!

By: danica

danica — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:57:05 +0000

Ann: Hee! We did it the opposite way from each other. Thank goodness for libraries!!

By: danica

danica — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:54:00 +0000

hm, well, it all worked for you and I haven’t tried fixing anything yet. hooray! I’d love to read that paper. People have the funniest ideas

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:59:24 +0000

Yeah, the rereading thing is funny. Some people (like you & me) swear by it; others won’t even consider it because life is too short. My dad once interviewed me for 2 hours on this topic for a paper he was writing (he’s a psych prof).

All right, I’m going to attempt to reply to the comment.

Julie’s last blog post at their site, http://bookworm.pilcrow.biz: Sunday Salon: American Pastoral

By: danica

danica — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:43:16 +0000

Oh, damn me: it looks like the plugin that lets people reply to a specific comment isn’t working with this theme. Why oh why is it all so complicated? And it’s not showing people’s last blog posts either. Maybe if I disable and reenable all the plugins….

Well then, the old-fashioned way:

Mrs S – thanks! I adore it. I am glad I can help other people find decent themes, too. So many of them that I’ve tried all look the same, or flat-out don’t work right, or leave out something I need. I’m learning a lot about creating themes by tweaking all of them tho! Someday I’ll probably end up designing my own.

Julie: thanks! Comfort re-reads are crucial. I think it’s a good mix It’s funny; my parents could never understand why I would want to read a book or watch a movie over again, because I already knew how it turned out. But I think it’s the experience that’s important, not the suspense!

By: Ann (Table Talk)

Ann (Table Talk) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:30:24 +0000

Only as I had to start thinking about whether I had enough to fund my retirement did I really start to look at my book buying habits and decide that in future the library could do my book buying for me.

Ann (Table Talk)’s last blog post at their site, http://web.mac.com/ann163125/Table_Talk/Table_Talk_Blog/Table_Talk_Blog.html: Another Sunday Salon

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:59:28 +0000

NICE new theme!

I also lean heavily towards comfort re-reads. I bet my shelves have a similar percentage.

By: Sunday Salon | A facelift and a giveaway | 50 Book Challenge

Sunday Salon | A facelift and a giveaway | 50 Book Challenge — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:51:50 +0000

[...] World planning site and nearly drove myself crazy – then today, thanks to the Salon, I find that Danica was also giving her site a facelift and recommended a great site where I picked up this new [...]

By: Mrs S | 50 Book Challenge

Mrs S | 50 Book Challenge — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:10:27 +0000

Hi – I’m new here via the Sunday Salon – I love the theme you have here – I spent mst of yesterday trying to fit a new theme to one of my other sites – but I’m going to check out the site you recommend as I’m not 100% happy with what I ended up with!