I guess I’ll be taking the weekend off. Though I didn’t do a damn thing to it, I have some kind of agonizing pain in the outside of my right wrist and lower hand. It started last night and just keeps getting worse. I can’t hold a pen. The Schwans guy came & writing a [...]
Contest reminder!
by Shannon on February 26, 2010 in Contests
On February 28th I’m going to give away TWO $25.00 gift certificates to any online bookstore (that offers gift certificates)! Entering is easy! 1) Sign up for my newsletter! I’ll neither share your email address nor inundate you with mail. But if I have exciting news to share, you can have it delivered straight to [...]
Answering to the Goodreads stats
by Shannon on February 25, 2010 in Uncategorized
I’m willing to bet my New Year’s resolution wasn’t exactly unique—stop outbuying my reading pace. The TBR pile—even when it’s digital—is out of control and at some point you’ve gotta stop and read the books you’ve got. This ridiculously doomed resolution coincided with another—keep track of the books I’ve read. Enter…goodreads.com (links to my profile). [...]
The nook: Using it
by Shannon on February 24, 2010 in Gadgets
First off, I’m not a very tech-savvy person. You’re not going to find an in-depth look at specs and functions here. I might even use the word thingy. This is a collection of random thoughts, k? The nook froze up on me four times in the first three hours I used it. This is a [...]
The nook: shallow first impressions
by Shannon on February 24, 2010 in Gadgets
Her name is Ethel. Not sure I would have named it, but the nook has a place to enter one, so Ethel it is. Why? Well, the new Macbook’s name is Lucy. So even though Lucy isn’t named after Lucille Ball, Ethel amused me. What didn’t amuse me? Trying to get the nook out of [...]








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