tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53981422007-03-17T21:58:08.088-05:00rachelgailBlogger3121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-28242447852420583902007-03-17T21:57:00.000-05:002007-03-17T21:58:08.373-05:00

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1164748741887213022006-11-28T15:12:00.000-06:002006-11-28T15:19:01.903-06:00

There are the occasional days when I think I have the best job in the world. And today, my belly full from free Fox and Obel meeting leftovers, is one of them. I'm getting paid to thumb through our library's entire collection of books about whiskey. Yes, me, wrybrarian, reading through reference books...for money! Hahahahaha. What a bunch of suckers -- I do this sort of thing on weekends for

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1164565894069052522006-11-26T12:23:00.000-06:002006-11-26T12:33:05.056-06:00

If Tamora Pierce had been around when I was a kid, I would have been the happiest girl in the world. Considering my early propensity for wandering through supermarkets neighing like a horse, on the other hand, it was probably good that I wasn't introduced to the idea of actually falling in love with a shape-shifting animal until adulthood. Anyhow, I've been secretly reading Pierce's series for

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1163305933642613182006-11-11T22:18:00.000-06:002006-11-11T22:32:13.660-06:00

It seems I can only bring myself to review books when I have something else to do. Um, like reviewing books for somebody else. Heh. I've been reading at a snail's pace this season, down to about one book a week. The culprit? Cable television, of course. You see, after about 5 years of freelancing, I started working fulltime. And i rewarded myself with cable. But I'm still reading, of course.

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1158786815845535342006-09-20T16:12:00.000-05:002006-09-20T16:13:39.653-05:00

mashup: BookMooch meets LibraryThing So, I've been reading a lot lately (and I should be talking about that more here), all thanks to BookMooch, a very cool book swapping website. More on that later. It's still hand-driven at this point, but I like the idea of using LibraryThing's bookshelf and tags to display my BookMooch inventory. LibraryThing has an awesome Universal Import function that can

eriktag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1156969828671352712006-08-30T15:30:00.000-05:002006-08-30T15:30:28.686-05:00

You’d think, what with being the wrybrarian and all, that I’d have a houseful of books. But actually, my collection is neatly organized – by subject matter – on just one bookshelf. Only three of which comprise actual reading (the other two are dedicated to craft reference, writing reference and magazines). How do I manage, you ask? It’s easy. I only keep books that truly move me (and anything

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1146065190400613392006-04-26T10:25:00.000-05:002006-04-26T10:26:30.413-05:00

Wrybrarian on hiatus. Back soon.

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1138143212437782012006-01-24T16:47:00.000-06:002006-01-24T16:59:10.373-06:00

Books I have read, but not recorded: 1) PopCo - coding meets a send-up of the ad industry. Read it. 2) Persuasion - young woman with integrity, idiot family, lost love, blahblahblah. Read it. 3) Wild Magic - humiliating, but delicious. 4) A Crime in the Neighborhood - coming-of-age story weaved into a tragedy. Good read, but don't be fooled by the Edgar nomination. This ain't no mystery.

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1134441896590590552005-12-12T20:02:00.000-06:002005-12-12T20:44:56.600-06:00

After all the hubub about the Pride and Prejudice film, I decided to pick up the book, even though my prospects of finding a 200-year-old novel interesting were slim. But oh joyous day! Jane Austin is delightful! How could I have missed this while I was in high school? [ed. note: It probably had something to do with the vast quantities of Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux features I was consuming

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1133560666923292122005-12-02T15:56:00.000-06:002005-12-02T15:57:46.933-06:00

I picked up Sarah Bird’s The Yakota Officer’s Club at my local library several years ago—it had a great cover—but I never even cracked it. What an idiot. Second time around, I didn’t want to set it down for a second. Told by Bernie, a teenage military brat who returns from her first year in college to spend the summer with her family in Japan, it’s got everything a great book needs: plot, wit,

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1133453591031387772005-12-01T10:11:00.000-06:002005-12-01T10:13:11.040-06:00

The New York Times just posted its list of 100 Notable Books of the Year. And I haven't. read. a. single. one.

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1132633181669893692005-11-21T22:06:00.000-06:002005-11-21T22:21:09.946-06:00

After a year of silence, I just wanted to pop in and say "Hi! I'm reading Dracula!" If you've never read it, you might not know that Dracula is told in this pretty cool epistolary format, including first-person journal entries, letters, newspaper clippings, etc. The first part of the novel, comprised of journal entries made by Jonathan Harker, a London solicitor who is summoned to remote

thatbobtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1132250017994005002005-11-17T11:50:00.000-06:002005-11-17T11:53:38.006-06:00

I have a new favorite magazine, and you should too. Radar is kinda like a cross between US and The John Stewart Show. It’s all the celebrity dirt you could imagine, just well reported. I’d write more, but I can’t get my nose out of the print issue I started reading on the bus this morning (there's some fascinating coverage of the alleged sexual assault on camera of Girls Gone Wild mogul Jon

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1131646202681133452005-11-10T12:09:00.000-06:002005-11-10T12:10:58.800-06:00

I have a new posting technique. I’m actually taking my own advice and writing these suckers out on Word before I try to get Blogger to interface with my service provider. Yes, I am a genius, and it’s only taken me eight or nine years as a content developer to discover this groundbreaking method. So what did I read on tour? I’m glad you asked. Winners The Weavers of Saramyr by Chris Wooding –

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1127929381809265552005-09-28T12:43:00.000-05:002005-09-28T12:43:01.836-05:00

A webcomic for librarians: Unshelved

eriktag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1127857714076561482005-09-27T16:47:00.000-05:002005-09-27T16:48:34.080-05:00

Why haven't I posted in months? Let's ask blogger why it keeps eating my fucking reviews!!!!!!!!

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1120589825837585282005-07-05T13:47:00.000-05:002005-07-05T14:00:03.240-05:00

When I was a kid, I'd visit my grandma at her gold-plated, mirrored Hollywood FLA condo, and I'd sit on her bed while she pulled jewelry out of her white enamel dresser that my Poppy (papi) or various other relatives and admirerers had given to her. I'd pick out the stuff I liked, and she'd promise it to me--when she died. When she did die, turns out I didn't earn anything at all, but I did

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1119305739231899142005-06-20T17:07:00.000-05:002005-06-21T17:05:26.296-05:00

I finished reading Illuminata (sp?) a couple of weeks ago at my parent's house in Florida, along with last month's book club pick, Tomorrow When the World Began, neither of which have anything in common, except that I used them both as buffers against creepy plane people. Here's a wrybrarian first: I can't remember how to spell Illuminata, nor can I remember the author's name. And if I can't

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1119305094727501002005-06-20T17:03:00.000-05:002005-06-20T17:04:54.733-05:00

Stories from the copy editing front: I was just walking back to my desk when somebody peeked their head into my office and started walking toward me. So, of course, I said, "Hi! Were you looking for me," in the hopes that there might be something billable for me to look over. "No," she answers. "Copy machine." These, my friends, are the perils of sitting in a supply closet.

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1116047149168395522005-05-13T23:59:00.000-05:002005-05-14T00:08:51.126-05:00

I came home from work in a foul mood and got banished to the bedroom, where I finished another mind-bogglingly geeky fantasy today called Scion's Lady, by Rebecca Bradley. It's apparently the sequel to Lady in Gil which I should have read first, because Scion is a plot spoiler. Nonetheless, who can resist a story about an awkward scholar who comes to possess the power to end the known world?

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1114029546275629652005-04-20T15:21:00.000-05:002005-05-14T00:07:36.626-05:00

I think I am a little bit in love with Ayelet Waldman, author of Daughter's Keeper, and a whole series of mysteries, as I see by her now defunct blog, Bad-Mother. I mean in love as in an I wanna be her friend kind of way, not an I wanna do dirty stuff kind of way. Anyhow, Daughter's Keeper is one of those really depressing but uplifting kind of stories, about a girl in her early 20s who gets

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1115653883200841632005-05-09T10:43:00.000-05:002005-05-11T14:13:48.033-05:00

There's probably something narcissitic about the fact that I work at one of the big advertising agencies, yet still fill up my spare time reading books like E: A Novel by Matt Beaumont. It's like I'm reading about myself, except the people at my agency are a lot nicer and, of course, proofreaders are way to boring to characterize when your book is already filled up with fodder like the diabolical

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1115838729646436512005-05-11T14:10:00.000-05:002005-05-11T14:13:00.496-05:00

As Hipsmart Erik has just kindly pointed out in my comments section, there is an egregious--and yes, ironic--error in the previous post. I am leaving it there to publicly shame myself (and for your amusement, of course).

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1114030385211299172005-04-20T15:51:00.000-05:002005-04-20T15:53:05.210-05:00

Check it out, Unfavorable Pink is just like Wrybrarian, only more well organized and with better writing!

rachelgailtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398142.post-1112979248853997262005-04-08T11:37:00.000-05:002005-04-11T14:27:51.730-05:00

Thanks, Blogger, for deleting my hilarious and scathing review of Edward Bloor's Crusader. Fantastic fiction, my ass.

rachelgail