Comments on eclectic / eccentric: Sunday Salon: Personal Essays

Elizabeth - Ahhh! I knew it. Dagnabit. I'm n...

2009-11-18T22:17:39.474-06:00

Elizabeth - Ahhh! I knew it. Dagnabit. I'm not sure I'm going to get through this.

J.B. - Thanks J.B. I'll have to check out your blog. I love personal essays.

My new blog is personal essays of mine so I set a ...

2009-11-18T21:40:49.369-06:00

My new blog is personal essays of mine so I set a google alert to help me find more blogs with personal essays and it directed me to yours. Yours is definitely one of the more beautiful better set up ones.

RE: The Feminine Mystique - if you think it's ...

2009-11-18T14:32:41.595-06:00

RE: The Feminine Mystique - if you think it's repetitious now, you will really think that by then end. When I read it, I just felt like I had heard it all before - which is the problem with reading a classic feminist work 50 years later - we HAVE heard it all before.

Marie - Loved Phantom Tollbooth. I hope you like ...

2009-11-16T19:38:06.238-06:00

Marie - Loved Phantom Tollbooth. I hope you like it.

Alyce - Maybe the shortness of personal essays would be a plus!

Frances - Nope, no luck on a pretty hardcover. Plain old paperback with tiny print.

softdrink - I still can't decide if I can stick with it. Just so repetitive.

Jenny - It seems like 50% can post there and 50% can't. There's a link in the left hand column for a post you can leave links to if you can't leave them on that site.

Amanda - It's a problem. I'm up to about 150 now. They need new books up there!

Rhapsody - I keep trying to remind myself of that, but it makes for some dullish reading after awhile. Short bursts seems the way to go.

Rebecca - I love the idea of a mini-review post for those not-so-awe-inspiring personal essays.

Eva - Yay for nonfiction! I know some people have trouble with only reading bits and pieces of a book even if it was written that way. I have no problem doing so with personal essays; but I can't do it with short story collections.

I love nonfiction! Although I'm not that grea...

2009-11-16T11:36:10.183-06:00

I love nonfiction! Although I'm not that great at reading essays; I've read more this year, because I made them part of my Year of Reading Dangerously challenge. But no, I don't read random ones...I'm really awful at randomly reading stories from books of short stories too. I can read them online randomly though!

That's a lot of bookmooch points! I keep runni...

2009-11-16T07:09:23.948-06:00

That's a lot of bookmooch points! I keep running out of points because I don't have books to list.

I haven't read nearly enough personal essays. I'd say review them as you read them individually, if you have something to say about them. If you don't have much to say, then keep a mini-review post in progress and add to it as necessary.

I haven't read The Feminine Mystique since col...

2009-11-15T17:43:43.604-06:00

I haven't read The Feminine Mystique since college, but I'm betting at least some of it seems outdated now, which is why it might seem repetitive too, because back then when she wrote it, you really needed to keep hammering these points in!

I haven't been listing new books on bookmooch ...

2009-11-15T13:53:45.901-06:00

I haven't been listing new books on bookmooch for awhile now for that same reason. Of course, I don't have 148 pts, just 20, but still, I'd like to spend them!

I really have no clue what personal essays are, lo...

2009-11-15T12:29:10.610-06:00

I really have no clue what personal essays are, lol! Or where to find them or anything like that.

I have tried to sign up/comment on your challenge a few times but the comment box never works for me. =/ I may just do the challenge anyway and not worry about posting there.

I've listened to about 1/2 of The Feminine Mys...

2009-11-15T11:18:51.308-06:00

I've listened to about 1/2 of The Feminine Mystique. I finally had to quit for awhile, because yes, it is repetitious! (Also, the narrator bugs.)

I was wondering if I should try the book, but maybe not. I am currently reading When Everything Changed, and the first 50 pages is similar to The Feminine Mystique, as it quotes housewives from the 50s and talks a lot about the women who went to college, then got married, and were then vaguely dissatisfied. Only, it moves on to other things after 50 pages!

Have also felt that nothing I am looking for pops ...

2009-11-15T10:35:59.166-06:00

Have also felt that nothing I am looking for pops up on Bookmooch. Have to check this other service out too.

Enjoy Cranford. Mine is sitting on the shelf waiting for me. Do you have the beautiful Penguin hardback re-design? Happy reading!

I haven't read many personal essays since coll...

2009-11-15T10:12:58.183-06:00

I haven't read many personal essays since college. I may have a book or two around that contain them (leftover from college) but they are not something I seek out. Maybe once my kids are out of the house (you know, some 13+ years from now) I may regain some critical thinking brain power. Right now full length books are more appealing to me. :)

I'm a member of Paperbackswap too, and so far I've had good experiences there.

148 points at BookMooch! WOWZA I wouldn't mind...

2009-11-15T10:05:20.555-06:00

148 points at BookMooch! WOWZA I wouldn't mind some of those.
As for Swaptree, I'll have to check it out, I haven't heard of it. But I am a frequent spender at Paperbackswap.
Thank you for your The Phantom Tollbooth suggestion, I'm looking into that one!