A friend who was unhappy with her previous attempts at book clubs, in-person and virtual, decided a book club where we each read whatever it is we want to read might work better. Thus, 12 Books, 12 Months was born. Here are the rules for the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge: Pick 12 titles from [...]
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12 Books, 12 Months Challenge
August 24th, 2010 · 15 Comments
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Long time gone
August 6th, 2010 · 6 Comments
[This post title is, for me, multi-meta in that it refers to several things.] It has been a long time since I’ve been here. Part of me is sad about this fact and part of me thinks that is just fine. A lot has happened since I last wrote here: I quit my job as [...]
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5th blogging anniversary
January 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments
29 January is the 5th anniversary of my public blogging. I had a Bloglines private blog for about 9 days before I got fed up with its lack of capabilities. That 1st proto-blog was called In My Secret Life… via Leonard Cohen. The 1st public-facing blog debuted on 29 January 2005 at bookmark.typepad.com and was [...]
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A few more thoughts on reading last year and this
January 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment
In my recent Books Read in 2009 post I talked a bit about what I read last yea and a few other aspects of reading. In this post I want to touch on a few other issues, some of which are orthogonal ways of looking at what I read last year; so partially an update, [...]
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Books Read in 2009
December 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments
Not sure what any of this means, or why, it is, or if, of importance. Much can be seen of my book reading habits over the last 3 years at this blog [see links at end of post]. According to previous posts, it looks like another banner year in the Lindner household for book reading. [...]
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habitually probing generalist
July 19th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Change of blog name I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope. 3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to WordPress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of [...]
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It’s like talking to the wall
July 13th, 2009 · 6 Comments
He’s incommunicado No comment to make He’s saying nothing at all Yeah but in the communique You know he’s gonna come clean … [Communique - Dire Straits] Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ. None of those are entirely [...]
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Update: My personal journey into ebooks
June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off
Back in March I wrote a longish post about “My personal journey into ebooks.” Things have since changed so I feel that I ought to add some commentary to those thoughts. As a caveat, these comments only pertain to me, at least as intended. They may apply to you as an individual reader but I [...]
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My personal journey into ebooks
March 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Recently I began reading ebooks. Before I address which books specifically and related issues let me put a few things on the table. Preliminaries: This post is about my experiences in the recent present and not about the future of what will or might be (even if I comment on that). I have read quite [...]
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4th blog anniversary
January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Back on 29 January 2005 …the thoughts are broken… debuted. That link now goes to the 1st post of this blog since I migrated to WordPress in July 2006. Wow! Four years already. I haven’t been doing much here since about the middle of last year and I’d like to get back to it. But. [...]
