Entries Tagged as ‘Literature’

August 2, 2009

Book challenge update

A book challenge is a goal you set yourself at the beginning of the year to read a certain amount of books before the year ends (that’s the plain book challenge, at least). I challenged myself to read 50 books because i was feeling very brave at the time, but I will certainly aim at [...]

January 10, 2009

Book Challenge 2009 (26/50)

I’ve decided I need a little pressure to turn off my computer and go read some times, so I’ve joined a popular challenge in the nerdfighter forum and set myself a goal: to read 50 books this year. The list is not closed, but there are some titles I definitely want in there already. Titles [...]

December 29, 2008

La Hora Smartiepants! (II)

Visto el suceso… digo, éxito, de los anagramas (o a lo mejor tampoco se podría llamar éxito… qué más dará?). El caso es que aquí va una segunda tanda de anagramas de nombres y apellidos.
Luli: El Chulín
Pablo: Beba la Poza
Mi abuelo: Así frena Blas, Fresa sin Bala
Mi padre: Pollo casi da barba
Mi hermano: Alava borlas, [...]

December 23, 2008

La hora Smartiepants! (Spanish)

No, no me estoy haciendo la listilla. Estoy rindiendo homenaje a Colin, el protagonista de An Abundance of Katherines (novela de John Green), a quien algunas personas llamaban Smartiepants y cuyo entretenimiento favorito es crear anagramas de todo (especialmente nombres propios). Yo no tengo la facilidad de Colin, así que me he echado media tarde [...]

September 14, 2008

Shelfari

I was going to write a proper review but… for some reason it was becoming too long and pedantic and honestly, absurd.
So just go to shelfari.com if you’re into literature and you want to have a virtual bookshelf to keep track of the books you’ve read and the ones you want to read. I love [...]