First of all a Happy New Year to all my fellow Sunday Saloners. I hope you all had a great holiday period and received as many wonderful bookish gifts as I did. I’ll be speaking more about these in subsequent posts but I wanted to use my first Sunday Salon post of 2009 to introduce [...]
Hey Everyone….I just wanted to drop in a quick post to wish everyone in the worldwide reading world all the very best for the New Year, with a greeting that comes from the Hogmanay Capital of the world, Edinburgh (or rather 12 miles away on the fringes of Fife, in Dunfermline - but hey, who’s [...]
It’s officially Christmas Day in my part of the world so I thought I’d take a moment just to wish all of the readers of RobAroundBooks a very Merry Christmas.
Needless to say that posting around here will be light for a few days as I spend time with my family, but rest assured I [...]
It’s the time of the year when many eyes look towards the Holy City of Jerusalem and for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week I’m doing the same, with this extraordinary shot taken by Jon (Johnk85), of the Or Shalem - Jerusalem Lights the Night light show.
Billed as a “spellbinding experience for the most [...]
As it’s Christmas week I wanted to do something a little different for this edition of Reader of the Week. Santa wasn’t available so in the spotlight is none other than an up-and-coming bibliophile who’s more than a little close to my heart, my 14 year old daughter Katy.
Have a great Christmas everyone!!
If there were a book called 101 Creative Things to do with Bookcarts (I dunno maybe there is?), then the National Library of Australia would definitely be in it. At their recent Christmas party they pulled into service a fleet of bookcarts as part of a choreographed rendition of Micheal Jackson’s Thriller, and the above [...]
I promised myself I wouldn’t file another Sunday Salon post unless I had something worthwhile to write about, and so far I’ve stuck to that promise. However I couldn’t let the Sunday before Christmas pass, without taking the time and opportunity to pass on my Christmas wishes to all of my warm and dear friends [...]
Title: Small Fry
Date Read: 19 December 2008
Word Count: 1308
Briefly: Watching the dignified citizens heading out for the Easter celebrations, lowly petty clerk Nevyrazimov bemoans his lot to his friend Paramon who is also on duty. As Nevyrazimov’s words of woe continue his depression deepens, as thoughts of promotion seem wholly improbable.
Afterthoughts: I quite enjoyed [...]
Well it’s Friday so that means it’s time for another RobAroundBookLists feature, and this week I’m going to point you to a rather short book list. Don’t be put off though, the list may only be comprised of eight titles, but it’s one that’s sure to titillate the taste-buds of any and all bibliophiles. Composed [...]
On the greater scale of things it’s no big deal but I thought I’d let you all know that the sign-ups for my 100 Shots of Short Reading Challenge has reached the magical number of 20, following the sign-up to the challenge last night, of Lena, from the ‘lost, not found’ blog. Yay thanks Lena!!!
I’ve [...]
