Steinbeck awaiting treat, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. ..here's a pic taken earlier today (Sunday 5th April). He's now 10 months old and still as pleasurable as the day we first got him, and fingers crossed he's still showing no … [Read more...]
Booking Through Thursday: On the subject of libraries
April 2, 2009 By 17 Comments
It's Thursday already so time for another Booking Through Thursday meme and this week, with National Library Week coming up in the US this month, Debs is exploring the subject of libraries, and how often we use them. Here's the question(s): How … [Read more...]
Sunday’s weekly ’round up’ – sponsored by Man Flu!
March 29, 2009 By 7 Comments
That's right folks, unlike my good lady wife who has a 'slight cold', I've succumbed to the dreaded 'man flu', and aside from thinking every shadow I see is the dreaded Grim Reaper with sickle in hand [gulp!], I'm sneezing and spluttering my way all … [Read more...]
Booking Through Thursday: Best ‘worst’ book
March 26, 2009 By 8 Comments
It's Thursday so time for another Booking Through Thursday meme. and this week Deb is really testing the brain cells by asking the opposite of last week's question: “What’s the best ‘worst’ book you’ve ever read — the one you like … [Read more...]
Sunday night means ’round-up’ night
March 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It's Sunday evening on my part of the revolving globe, so it's time again to round-up all of the posts I've made in the past week, for the benefit of those who may have missed some of them. Forethoughts: One Moonlit Night by Caradog … [Read more...]
Booking Through Thursday: Worst ‘best’ book?
March 19, 2009 By 29 Comments
It's time for another Book Through Thursday meme and because I didn't answer last week's 'which book to movie' question (simply because I'll always prefer a story in its book form) I thought I'd better answer this week's one which is: “What’s … [Read more...]
Whistle! Whistle! Come bye boy, come bye!
March 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For the benefit of those may have missed any of them, my little digital sheepdog has been racing around rounding up all of the posts I've let out onto the Web over the past seven days. Here they all are - penned up and ready to explore (there's a … [Read more...]
Stephen Fry on the Kindle’s threat to books
March 12, 2009 By 3 Comments
Nice succinct quote for reading traditionalists from Stephen Fry on Twitter earlier today: "Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators" Wonderfully spoken Mr. Fry! I can't even think of anything to add to that :o) … [Read more...]
All my little post ‘fishes’ in one crate…
March 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
..or in other words it's Sunday evening already, and it's time for a weekly round-up of everything posted on RobAroundBooks over the past week (just in case you missed any): 'Book Bites' for Monday 2nd March 2009 "Chekhov Shorts": The … [Read more...]
My local newspaper got right behind World Book Day….not!
March 6, 2009 By 4 Comments
So today was World Book Day in the UK (as I’ve stated a few times already), and getting right into the spirit of things my local weekly newspaper ran a kind of ‘whattcha reading?’ viewpoints feature on some members of the local public. I was … [Read more...]