About Me
I’m a 22-year-old student living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I love books, computers, and history. I read a bit of almost everything: general fiction, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, children’s lit, young adult, non-fiction…. I’m particularly fond of books set in other cultures, whether they’re separated from mine by time or space. So historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and world lit can be equally intriguing to me, and for pretty much the same reasons.
About This Blog
This is my reading journal. I read a lot. I also discuss various book-related things here, but my main blog is at http://poodlerat.livejournal.com/.
If you’re curious about where “Poodlerat” comes from, try a copy of The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton.
My blogroll contains various book-related sites that I like to visit, especially book blogs. If you have a book-related site and link to me, I will certainly reciprocate.
The pretty book covers in the posts are from http://www.booksamillion.com/. They happen to be the perfect size for a blog, and come with nice drop shadows already attached. I’ve never ordered anything from there, but if you’re American, the prices and shipping rates look pretty good!
The site’s title is from a poem, Birds, Bags, Bears, and Buns:
The common cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
The reason you will see, no doubt,
It is to keep the lightning out,
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed is that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbsAnonymous
There’s no moderation queue for comments, so if you leave one and it doesn’t show up, it’s because Akismet thinks it’s spam—probably because it includes two or more links, or the word “viagra”. Honestly, does spamming people’s blogs ever work as a form of advertising?
And to the spammers assaulting my inbox: thank you anyway, but I am not interested in knockoff copies of computer software, prescription drugs from questionable sources, or penis enlargement treatments of any kind. Nor will I ever be sending money to Nigerians who contact me via email, no matter how touching your story or how exciting your investment opportunity may be…
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 11:30 am
jo treggiari
Thrilled you’ve taken the name of PoodleRat! Would love to hear what you think of the book, The Curious Misadventures of Feltus Ovalton.
Best,
Jo
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Poodlerat
Actually, I heard about the book from my best friend, who worked as an intern at Lobster Press, and bought me a copy. I fell in love with RinMal and Saldemere Ogg and the rest of the PoodleRats right away.
Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 2:10 am
Dona
I have tried subscribing to your blog, but I can only reach the html code for the blog. Any help here? I am a librarian in Australia and am interested in your content.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Poodlerat
@Dona: It’s been a while since you commented, so I don’t know if you’ll see this, but to subscribe to the site, you need to be using a feed reader program of some kind, like Google Reader.
For more about what feeds are, how they work, and how to use them, try this article at Wikipedia or this one at mezzoblue.com.
Hope that helps!
And thanks—I’m glad you’re enjoying the blog.