http://tinybook.net Books + Tea = <3² Sun, 11 May 2008 09:03:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is really, really cool. My favorite: Me and the Sandbox Ernie Hemingway, Age 7 The sand! It lies in motionless waves and suggests a playfulness perfect for my age. I feel it between my fingers and it's very cold, a bit moist and gritty. Tommy's ball went over the fence and some ... http://tinybook.net/2008/03/04/famous-writers-as-children/ Avraham B. Yehoshua is going to be at Salon du Livre de Paris (Paris Book Fair) in March! Sayed Kashua, Etgar Keret and Amos Oz are also going to be there! This is so, so awesome that I'm probably the last person in the entire world to know about this. ... http://tinybook.net/2008/02/21/insert-squeeling-noise-here/ Quick, quick update before posting my January reviews tomorrow. I'm pretty sure the way I ramble about books can't be qualified as real, NY Times reviews, so a couple of things you might want to know: 1. I don't rate books because I don't read books I don't like. I've tried ... http://tinybook.net/2008/01/31/evas-reading-meme/ The Mythopoeic Society is dedicated to the study and enjoyment of fantasy and mythic literature, especially the works of the Inklings, an informal literary circle at Oxford that included the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and others. Each year the Society awards the best scholarly and literary achievements exemplifying ... http://tinybook.net/2007/12/31/mythopoeic-award-challenge/ Here Be Dragons is a small reading challenge (3-5 books from January to June) and, as you might have guessed, is all about reading books featuring Dragons. My list: 01. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 02. Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis 03. Slippage by Harlan Ellison http://tinybook.net/2007/12/30/here-be-dragons/ From the TBR Challenge website: Pick 12 books - one for each month of 2008 - that you've been wanting to read (that have been on your "To Be Read" list) for 6 months or longer, but haven't gotten around to. OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 "Alternates" (books you could substitute ... http://tinybook.net/2007/12/23/to-be-read/ I've stumbled across the Expanding Horizons challenge today and thought it was a wonderful idea. Truth is, I don't read enough authors of ethnicities other than my own (or, rather, American/English authors - I haven't read a book in french in ages!). There are two ways to approach this challenge. Either ... http://tinybook.net/2007/12/14/expanding-horizons/ I've been wanting to read the Bible for a long, long time. I've read most of the Old Testament over the years and a large part of the New Testament but I never read it from cover to cover. So, here's my challenge: I'm going to read the Bible in ... http://tinybook.net/2007/12/13/bible-in-one-year/ Hello world, you're looking at tinybook.net, my - Caroline - new little space about books I read, exhibitions/museums I visit, Paris, music and anything I might find interesting enough to blog about. http://tinybook.net/2007/12/12/hello-world/