Yesterday was the “official” BBAW Reading Meme Day, so I’m late, but I didn’t want to miss out completely. The BBAW Blog has a list of short-answer questions for participants to answer if they choose, but I’m going be different as well as late; I’m responding to another meme entirely, but it does concern reading and blogging, so I’m counting it anyway. Many book bloggers have already addressed the questions raised by author Shannon Hale […]
Disclosure: D&D Creations, the developers of this product, provided me with a sample for review purposes (the product retails for $29.95 plus shipping). I received no other compensation. I always wanted to be someone who kept a reading journal. I made a few half-hearted attempts, but they never stuck, and I never had much success at keeping records of what I read until I went online, where this blog and LibraryThing both serve that purpose. […]
image credit: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/720361 edited in Picnik Please welcome Jana of Will Work for Books to The 3 R’s for the BBAW Interview Exchange! Jana’s blog is new to me, but it’s been around since early 2008, and it features a variety of bookish content. I like the rating system she has devised for her book reviews, and the inclusion of book-related news in her content mix. Jana really has “worked for books” in various capacities, […]
On this first day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2009, participants are encouraged to share the book-blog love: The first day of BBAW, Monday September 14th, we encourage you to write a post thanking and spotlighting your favorite blogs that didn’t make the shortlists. Those “shortlists” would be the ones related to the BBAW Awards, which I talked more about last Friday: nearly 40 categories, 1000 blogs originally nominated across them all, now down to […]
New Arrivals in my Google Reader The Debutante Ball A Reader’s Respite Books ‘N Border Collies Kids, Twins, and Laundry Bins The Misadventures of Super Librarian Remembering eight years and one day ago: Project 2,996; remembrances from Washington DC and New York City; remembering not seeing it happen; still looking for “disaster buddy” Don; looking for hope on the National Day of Service. Also: Did citizen reporting on 9/11 foreshadow blogging today? A farewell to […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report (hey, check out the new badge!*) Book reviews posted this week: “Gone to the Dogs” with – The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog, by John Grogan Next review scheduled (after BBAW): Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, by Lizzie Skurnick (blog) Currently reading: The Last Bridge, by Teri Coyne (for LibraryThing Early […]
Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog John Grogan (blog) Harper, 2008 (paperback) (ISBN 0060817089 / 9780060817084) Memoir, 320 pages First sentence: In the summer of 1967, when I was ten years old, my father gave in to my persistent pleas and took me to get my own dog. (from the Preface) Book description: John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a […]
The subject of my my very first single-book review on this blog, posted April 28, 2007 (prior to that, the review posts had been round-ups), has now been made into a movie. (Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously) intrigued me in the original hardcover, but since I only buy books in paperback I’ve been waiting to read it. It’s a lot of fun to read, more of a “memoir with food” than actual […]
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel Garth Stein Harper, 2009 (paperback) (ISBN 0061537969 / 9780061537967) Fiction, 336 pages First sentence: Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. Book description: Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words […]
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I was helping with some behind-the-scenes work to prepare for Book Blogger Appreciation Week. I’m finally done, and now it can be told: I was a member of the awards committee, and served on three of the panels evaluating nominees for the Shortlist. (I was not nominated for any of the awards I judged, and the same is true for all other committee members.) I discovered nearly all […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report My Question of the Week, as asked on Twitter this past Tuesday: Will I get blackballed from the book-blogging community because I haven’t read The Hunger Games and sat out the release-day hoopla for Catching Fire this week? Seriously, someone tell me it’s OK. I need to know. ** Actually, I don’t need to know any more…I ordered them both on Wednesday. I still have no idea how soon I’ll […]
I’ve got a couple of blog-related status reports for you today, just in case you missed some things that happened earlier this week. (1) If you’re like me, you probably do most of your blog reading via an RSS reader of some sort and don’t visit the blogs themselves very often. Also, your feed reader probably brings you many blogs where you don’t comment regularly, so you don’t really need to go to the sites […]
