04 Friday Jan 2008
Posted in blogging, books & writing
Healingmagichands started a page last year to list all the books she read in 2007, which I meant to copy emulate but didn’t get round to doing. And so I thought I’d try it this year because I think it would be nice to have a record of what I’ve read. So it will be on this page , which can also be found in the top right hand corner.
I’ll be updating it here from time to time. Usually on a monthly basis or else whenever I need a quick post to keep up with my blog 365 commitment.
13 Thursday Dec 2007
Posted in books & writing, health & happiness, life stuff
Pratchett has Alzheimer’s disease
Author Terry Pratchett is suffering from a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease, it has been revealed.
He said: “I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news.
“I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s, which lay behind this year’s ‘phantom stroke’.”
He added: “We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism.
I first saw this on Paul Kidby’s website yesterday, via a post on Ask h2g2. Mr Pratchett is also quoted as saying he would prefer it if people “keep things cheerful”, but it’s hard not to feel sadness and concern. 😦
23 Friday Nov 2007
Posted in blogging, books & writing, miscellany, nablopomo
What level of education is required to understand your blog?
I’m personally quite happy that nobody needs a PhD to read my blog, so this result makes me feel like casa az is open to everyone, which was kinda the idea from the start.
Meanwhile, I tested this test by putting in the URL of my new travelblog, which is basically all photos and very little text, and it came out with it needing a High School level to understand it. Go figure . . .
Also, when you copy and paste the html there is some sort of cheesy advertising link for cash advance loans at the bottom (which I eliminated). So yeah, it’s pretty much a load of crap, but what the heckity. It’s now after midnight and now day 23 . . .
~ swiped from Lori ~
17 Saturday Nov 2007
Posted in books & writing, me-me's, musings, nablopomo
Please feel free to tag yourselves . . .
Four childhood books
Four authors I will read again and again
Four authors I will never read again
The first four books on my to-be-read list
The four books I would take to a desert island
The last lines of one of my favourite books
~ this be plundered from alejna … aaarrr 
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08 Thursday Nov 2007
Posted in books & writing, films, nablopomo
20 Good Books Made Into Not-So-Good Movies
Do you agree with the AV Club’s list? Are there any more titles you’d like to add?
And here is another possibly scary list … this one of Books Into Movies that have release dates in November and December.
casa azahar 