A Day In the Life of the Ardent Reader (2016 Edition)

March 23, 2016 by Christina

For the second year in a row, Trish of Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity is hosting “A Day in the Life”, an event where bloggers are encouraged to document a typical weekday for them. I participated last year and, honestly, didn’t think my typical weekday would change too much from 2015 to 2016 — same job, same apartment, same book clubs. Turns out, there are some subtle differences between Wednesday, March 11, 2015 and Wednesday, March 16, 2016. […]

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Sunday Salon: Currently in February

February 21, 2016 by Christina

Last weekend, I spent a couple of days up in Vermont visiting a friend of mine from college. The polar vortex and temperatures dropping to -35F with the wind chill forced us to largely cancel all our outdoor plans and stick to indoor activities — wine and chocolate samplings, visiting the Ben & Jerry’s factory, shopping at the local bookstores, and cuddling with my friend’s dog. (I so want a dog of my own now.) I also accompanied my friend and her […]

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A Day In the Life of the Ardent Reader

March 27, 2015 by Christina

Today, Trish of Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity is hosting “A Day in the Life”, an event where bloggers are encouraged to document a typical weekday for them. I tend to think my life is pretty, well, boring, but Trish mentioned in her post for the event that she likes having these kinds of posts to look back on and remember how she used to do things. And who knows? Maybe in ten years, I’ll have a husband […]

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Five

January 15, 2013 by Christina

Ardent Reader turns five today! In five years, I have read 730 books by 534 different authors and written 954 posts (er, make that 955). I still can’t get my mind around those numbers. It seems entirely unimaginable that I have been documenting my reading selections since 2008 but here I am! I wish to take a brief moment to thank you all for stopping by, reading my thoughts, and sharing your own. I started this blog in the hopes […]

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Blogging Break

April 26, 2011 by Christina

Things have been a little quite around here and they are set to stay that way for the next week or so. This is the last week of classes, and next week is the first week of exams. I am working hard at finishing up final papers, giving final presentations, and organizing my stuff for when I return home for the summer next month. I’m sure I will have tons of bookish things to discuss with you all after exams […]

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All Quiet on the Blogging Front

March 4, 2011 by Christina

I’m off to visit the country of Hungary with my family. I am not expecting to have much internet access (and blogging on my iPad is a major pain anyways) so things should be quite quiet around here for another a week or so. Hopefully I will have several wonderful books to tell you about and photos to show you upon my return. Google Reader will be no doubt be overwhelming and I will probably be temped to push “mark […]

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Tweeting

November 22, 2010 by Christina

I dropped off Twitter quite a while back, but lately I’ve been reading so many blog posts that begin with “so and so and I were talking on Twitter and…” and I just had to rejoin. So now I’m tweeting. You can follow me on Twitter, or just check to the left and see tweets come in that way. Can’t promise I’ll tweet a lot as I dropped off last time because of how much I had on my plate, […]

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Happy First Birthday!

January 15, 2009 by Christina

I never really set out to start review books online. Originally, after realizing I had already read the book I just finished and didn’t like it then, I started keeping a list of the books I’ve read. Included with the name and title was the back cover/inside cover blurb about the book and a couple of thoughts. When I started blogging about the treacheries of teenage life, I began posting the mini-reviews on my blog. Some how I managed to […]

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WordPress Users

March 29, 2008 by Christina

How do you like WordPress? Have any of you used Blogger and then switched over to WordPress? Is it better then Blogger? I’m considering switching over to WordPress but wanted to get some expert opinions.

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