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(91/366) Is This the Future Past?
March 31, 2012 – Funny, today I downloaded my first ever ebook onto my iPad. I thought I’d try it out since I’m heading out to a remote site in a few days and won’t have any internet or phone coverage and I don’t feel like adding to my light packing job. Three hours later I found myself sitting in…
Read more »Day 272 – Raise-A-Reader
272/365 (September 29, 2010) – I love reading, and today is a special day in Canada – today is Raise-a-Reader Day. Raise-a-Reader is a year-round initiative that raises funds for family literacy programs across Canada. The program has raised $15-million since its national launch in 2002 and has managed to help educate Canadians about literacy issues and how improved literacy…
Read more »Day 180 – Lest We Forget
180/365 (June 29, 2010) – Have you seen this book in the stores? I urge you to pick up a copy and at least read a few pages in the bookstore. It’s wonderful. You will laugh, you might groan, but you will relate to something in it. We spend so much time fussing about stupid things, and forget to appreciate…
Read more »Day 117 – The Summer Reading List
117/365 (April 27, 2010) – With boating season comes the reading list. Floating out there is hard work you know! So I need some good reading material. This is about half of my pile of books waiting to be read… Fiction Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb Good Grief by Lolly Winston…
Read more »Day 40 – I Still Prefer Paper
40/365 (February 9, 2010) – It’s funny, so many aspects of my life are so digital and have been for ages. Photos are almost all digital, I ripped every CD i own to mp3 format and have downloaded thousands of music files. I am in the process of digitizing all of the remaining vinyl. I download movies, TV shows, and…
Read more »Days 8-14 – Two Weeks Down, 50 Left to Go
I’m a couple of days late on compiling week two, but I’ve managed to keep up with the challenge so far. I think the interesting thing about doing a photo a day is that at the end of it all I will have a photographic record of the year and the things that caught my eye or that were of…
Read more »Kindle Doesn’t Light My Fire.
I have always loved reading. When I was a kid I hid under the covers with a flashlight after I’d been sent off to bed for the night. Books were, and are, so many things. They are knowledge. They are an escape. They are inspirational. They are educational. They are entertaining. They enlighten us. They feed curiosity. There is something…
Read more »The Aye-Aye and I
I had never heard of Gerald Durrell (the little brother of Lawrence Durrell) until a friend introduced me to his writing just before we went off to the Ionian this past Spring. He was British and was hauled off to Corfu as a child where he became interested in the natural world. Later in life he founded the Jersey Zoo…
Read more »Bookshelf….
A somewhat random collection of books on my personal bookshelf that I either can’t live without, or have recently read. Living Conscientiously The 100 Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon Green Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck Ecoholic by Adria Vasil Fiction Factory The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham The Midwich…
Read more »Language Barriers
I love language, particularly when I can interpret it. What fascinates me the most is how so many of us around the world speak such different versions of the same language….namely English. There are such striking similarities and differences between British English, Canadian English and America English that I picked up a few books last week to delve into them.…
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