Comments on: 11 +1 Ways to Make This Your Best Semester Yet http://ewkinglibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/11-1-ways-to-make-this-your-best-semester-yet/ Lux lucet in tenebris Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:37:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: aacoles http://ewkinglibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/11-1-ways-to-make-this-your-best-semester-yet/#comment-9 aacoles Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:03:31 +0000 http://ewkinglibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/11-1-ways-to-make-this-your-best-semester-yet/#comment-9 I love Katie's term "horizontal reading program" and the no note taking or underlining. How freeing! Currently, I am indulging in two horizontal readings: Under the Tuscan Sun, which I can appreciate more since having the chance to go to Italy, and a book called The Melungeons, the Resurrection of a Proud People. I love Katie’s term “horizontal reading program” and the no note taking or underlining. How freeing! Currently, I am indulging in two horizontal readings: Under the Tuscan Sun, which I can appreciate more since having the chance to go to Italy, and a book called The Melungeons, the Resurrection of a Proud People.

]]> By: Katie Vande Brake http://ewkinglibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/11-1-ways-to-make-this-your-best-semester-yet/#comment-8 Katie Vande Brake Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:03:07 +0000 http://ewkinglibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/11-1-ways-to-make-this-your-best-semester-yet/#comment-8 I admit that I do love the library, and I do love to read. That's my favorite of the 11 items on the list. I always have at least one book going that is not "required" reading. I call it my horizontal reading program--reading I do in a horizontal position. No notetaking allowed. No underlining allowed. Right now I'm reading a diary of a Confederate girl, who was living in Baton Rouge during 1862 and 1863. I picked this book up at an arcane bookshop called Bookworm and Silverfish. This 16-year old girl records what her life was like...how her brothers were all off fighting, how her mother was too hysterical most of the time to be any help to anyone, how she and her sister kept bags packed every day that they could grab at a moment's notice and tie under their hoop skirts if the Federals should start the cannonade that was always an imminent threat. The book before that one was a mystery by Robert Parker. Before that, America Alone by Mark Steyn. My horizontal reading program. It keeps me sane in a crazy world. I'm glad we have a library blog. Go Julie! I admit that I do love the library, and I do love to read. That’s my favorite of the 11 items on the list. I always have at least one book going that is not “required” reading. I call it my horizontal reading program–reading I do in a horizontal position. No notetaking allowed. No underlining allowed.

Right now I’m reading a diary of a Confederate girl, who was living in Baton Rouge during 1862 and 1863. I picked this book up at an arcane bookshop called Bookworm and Silverfish. This 16-year old girl records what her life was like…how her brothers were all off fighting, how her mother was too hysterical most of the time to be any help to anyone, how she and her sister kept bags packed every day that they could grab at a moment’s notice and tie under their hoop skirts if the Federals should start the cannonade that was always an imminent threat.

The book before that one was a mystery by Robert Parker. Before that, America Alone by Mark Steyn.

My horizontal reading program. It keeps me sane in a crazy world.

I’m glad we have a library blog. Go Julie!

]]> By: Dustin http://ewkinglibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/11-1-ways-to-make-this-your-best-semester-yet/#comment-7 Dustin Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:30:03 +0000 http://ewkinglibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/11-1-ways-to-make-this-your-best-semester-yet/#comment-7 Thanks for the comment. I would certainly advocate hitting the library, again and again, for students, but since I just gave the library heps of loving in my post on doing better research (http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/advice-for-students-10-steps-toward-better-research.html) I didn't want to repeat myself. Thanks for the comment. I would certainly advocate hitting the library, again and again, for students, but since I just gave the library heps of loving in my post on doing better research (http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/advice-for-students-10-steps-toward-better-research.html) I didn’t want to repeat myself.

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