Category — Microblog Mondays

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I’ve been debating whether or not to start The Silent History.  Is anyone else reading it?

It’s a novel that is written for the iPhone, and as you travel around, you unlock parts of the story based on your GPS coordinates.  Actually, I think you can read the main chunk of the story from any space, but then there are hundreds of side stories that can only be unlocked from certain locations.  It has been around for a while, and I’ve looked at it a dozen times without downloading it.

I sort of like this idea of needing to travel somewhere to read part of the story, with the location affecting how you read the words on the screen.  And I sort of don’t like this idea of getting off my bum and traveling somewhere for the sake of reading.

What do you think?  Yay or nay on this idea of literary geocaching and only getting to read a story from a certain location?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I am currently working my way through Ben Aaronovitch’s books based on a friend’s recommendation.  They’re fantastic — Harry Potter for grownups.  It’s a series, which is nice because if you like the characters in the first one, you know what you’ll be reading next.

Though I know that — like the True Blood books — I’ll probably take a break after three books to read something else, and then dip in and out of the series the rest of the way, even though I always start out with the intention to read a whole series back-to-back.  I didn’t think about how I read series until The Paperback Princess asked whether you read your series back-to-back or dip-in-and-out.

I’m a dipper, but I’m the worst sort of dipper because I pretend to be a back-to-backer so I can purchase the whole series.

How do you approach series: back-to-back books or dip-in-and-out?  Or does it depend on the series itself or the number of books in it?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

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I gracefully stumbled into a low-lying planter at the mall.  I was twisting backwards to try to figure out the name of a new store — it didn’t have a sign above the entrance and had instead etched the name faintly into its glass windows — when my shoe caught on a six-inch decorative planter.  I fell in slow motion, with the ChickieNob screaming, “Mooooooooooomeeeeeeeeeeee” as I tumbled forward, breaking my fall with my hands as I smashed my right knee into the tile.

Not one person stopped eating at the tables around me.  Not one person came over to see if I was okay.

The ChickieNob and I sat there for a while, and then we slowly limped into a department store where I collapsed on a bench near the high heels.  The lump on my leg was so huge that it looked like my kneecap had decided to get itself an extra backup kneecap, just in case, and set it at a jaunty angle like a beret.  (The ChickieNob whispered, “It’s a good thing you didn’t check your unshaven legs when we were sitting in the casual part of the mall and instead waited to roll up your jeans when we were sitting amongst the fancy shoes.”)

I moaned the whole ride home.  Thank you, world, for creating ice.

What was your last injury?

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Today is Twitter’s 10th anniversary.  You go, Twitter!  In honour of their 10th anniversary, they’ve made it easy to find your first Tweet.  Just click on that link and it will tell you the first thing you wrote.

I wrote:

11/15/07 9 p.m. EST for Grey’s Anatomy

— stirrupqueen (@stirrupqueen) November 15, 2007

Sort of an odd choice, and I don’t really know what I meant by that. Was I trying to remember to watch Grey’s Anatomy the next night?

Anyway, what was your first Tweet?

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Tomorrow is the Ides of March.  We’re supposed to beware of it.  It was actually the Roman new year, which means that today would be the Feast of Anna Perenna.  It was a big celebration to mark the end of the year.

In addition to the usual festive food and alcohol, the day was marked by Mamuralia, a ritual that involved dressing up an elderly man in animal skins and then beating him while he ran out of town (provided that he was able to make it out of town while people beat him senselessly and that he didn’t die from the stench of wearing the skin of an animal over his body).  He was to represent the old year, driving it away to make room for the new one.

Are accounts of this ritual accurate?  I’m not sure I want to know.  I just love the fact that it could possibly be true.

So, in honour of the Roman new year, what would you figuratively get rid of today to leave in the old year, and what do you want to do differently in the new?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.