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Archive for January, 2006

Tournament of Books

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

The Morning News has announced this year’s 16 titles for their Tournament of Books. Brackets and judges to be announced later this month. Powell’s is offering 30% off all the titles on the list. Let’s get reading: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss * The Time in Between by David Bergen Veronica by Mary [...]

GTD with Formation

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

The next product in line for testing the GTD system is Formation 1.1.4. The software is available through a company called Radical Breeze, which is located in Everett, WA. The company announced that Formation 2 will be available within the next two weeks and will include many new features. For those who already own a [...]

GTD with StickyBrain

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

I randomly chose StickyBrain 4 as my first software test for compatibility with the GTD system. Here are my thoughts after playing with the product for about 2 hours: PRO: easy to set up. I had a little help (ok, a lot of help) from MadeByMark.com. He has a 2-part tutorial on creating the GTD [...]

GTD: Mac Software Options

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

Friday, January 27th, 2006

This is a guest book review by Christian. I went through a typical male adolescent comic book phase. I’m not sure what exact age it was at, but for about a year I misspent my youth pouring over the stories of Spiderman, Batman, X-men and others (as opposed to the other years I misspent on [...]

The Life Expectancies of Books

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I woke up this morning to find a very interesting article from Making Light in my RSS reader entitled The life expectancies of books Here’s a sample for you: We talk about immortal literature, but the vast majority of books are as mortal as we are. Who here has read John Cleveland? He was the [...]

Literary News & Links

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Seattle Weekly has once again underwhelmed me with their Spring preview of author events coming to Seattle. The Stranger takes a humorous look at James Frey and how he conned Seattle. The New York Times has an interesting article on audio books entitled “How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?” The second annual [...]

Tonight: Paul Auster

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Authors Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt will be at Benaroya Hall tonight at 7:30 PM as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures Series. All ticket-holders may also attend a one-hour talk at 5:30 PM to discuss the featured authors. Auster is the author of one of my favorite books, The New York Trilogy. His [...]

Book Sense Best Books

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

In 2004, Book Sense published a book of 125 “favorite books recommended by independent booksellers” as part of their 5th anniversary celebration. The lists include fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books, and reading group recommendations. The books opens with a forward by Barbara Kingsolver. I really like what she had to say about independent bookstores: It’s [...]

Best & Worst of 2005: Book Edition

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

This list is based on the best and worst books I read in 2005. That doesn’t necessarily mean they came out last year; only that I read them for the first time in 2005. I read a lot of good books in 2005, so narrowing it down to 5 was difficult. For example I had [...]