I’m letting Amanda take over my blog for a few days while I lounge on the beach with a book and drink

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Part I: How I Became an UF Addict

Scene: B&N in an unspecified college town, MN, March 3, 2011
Character profile: Amanda, graduate student.  Life is always overwhelming, but after [Keep reading...]

I‘m sure I hope you’ve noticed that things have been very quiet on here this year. I’m sad to say that I’ve lost some followers (who I hope will find their way back), but I needed a break. By the end of last year 25 Hour Books had become a job… [Keep reading...]

A blogger friend of mine (Rachie @ And the Plot Thickens…) has been writing bookish articles over at Suite101.com. In an experiement to help boost readers, she headed over to a Twilight message board to promote her latest article. The general response about reading vampire classics? “those are old style vampire books and I [Keep reading...]

I have been contemplating writing this post for a while now, and Tara’s introduction of the O.C.R. is the perfect time to discuss something I have been learning about in one of my grad courses: reading comprehension.  The first thing I learned about reading is that it is an incredibly [Keep reading...]

This is my week to post the subject for Weekly Geeks and since I love to make acronyms for reading terms, I wrote about how to spot if you’re becoming an O.C.R. and how to avoid becoming one.

O.C.R. – Overly Critical Reader

To see the symptoms and suggestions on how to deal with this, head over [Keep reading...]