$$ Delurking and Donating – Keeping it Going! $$ While I was soliciting comments here on Delurker Day, I also managed to do some delurking of my own, dropping more comments than I do most days. (To be honest, there are many times I’ll share a link to a post, here or on Twitter, instead of commenting, because I’m either busy or lazy.) Here are some stats on the visits I made as of 7 […]
Announcement: Bloggiesta 2.0 Begins! Bloggiesta kicks off this morning! Participants will be spending time during the next three days tackling those nagging blog-housekeeping tasks that we have so much trouble getting around to doing – and encouraging each other along the way! If you need some ideas about what to work on, the challenge announcement post at Maw Books has lots of suggestions; there’s no minimum time commitment required, but Natasha suggests putting enough into […]
Assorted Announcements This is officially my last Week-End Review of 2009! Although it seemed to get more reader response when I posted it on Saturdays, I’m still not sorry I moved it to Fridays. However, I won’t be posting one on Christmas Day – and I certainly hope you’ll have better things to do next Friday than look for it, anyway! I’m not certain yet whether I’ll be posting on January 1; I suspect that […]
Two weeks from today, we’ll be waking up on Christmas morning! Guess we’d better get our tree up soon, hadn’t we? To those of you who will be lighting the menorah and starting your celebration tonight, Happy Chanukah! New Arrivals in my Google Reader Too Many Books, Too Little Time Baby Got Books Book Snob LaurieWrites I Have Things… Dispatches: Links of the Week Lots of holiday-themed links this week, but hopefully not an overdose […]
Since I missed last Friday, I have LOTS of links to share this week, so let’s move right along… New Arrivals in my Google Reader Novelwhore’s Blog nomadreader My Books. My Life. Books Worth Reading The New Dork Review of Books Dispatches: Links of the (last 2) Week(s) Baking cookies every day ⇨ a daily cookie giveaway: a donation to a food pantry means food for them, and – maybe – cookies for you! When […]
Audience Participation: Blogger Input Requested! Two items – one regional, one worldwide: If you’re a Southern California book blogger or author, have you given your input on a new site to help build up our connections to each other? If you missed the post about that earlier this week, or just haven’t responded yet, please read all about it and take our very short survey! Become part of a very ambitious project to collect one […]
Happy Friday! Here’s what I have to share with y’all this week: seven new-to-me blogs a collection of links that are a bit more thought-provoking than usual (must be something about autumn – the cool weather and short days must make some of us more reflective) a timely Blogthings personality quiz, and a Customer of the Week (fortunately, not my customer!) Also, if you haven’t already told me your favorite cover songs and your thoughts […]
New Arrivals in my Google Reader Lit and Life Steele on Entertainment Average Girl Reads Meg’s Idle Chatter Shona’s Bookshelves Gen Xtinct (this is for my fellow lost children of the ’70’s and ’80’s!) My Sandwich Generation (for my fellow children whose parents may be in their 70’s and 80’s) The end of the year is rushing toward us, accompanied by THE HOLIDAYS! Book bloggers have their own way to celebrate: The Book Blogger Holiday […]
Happy Birthday to my sister Teresa, who has neither a blog nor a Twitter account – but she is spending her birthday at Disneyland! I’ve changed the format of this post a bit – the links are at the end, so hopefully you won’t leave before you read the rest of it! New Arrivals in my Google Reader Lynne’s Letters Booklust Aiming Low Finding My America BlogHer.com has announced the Call for Ideas for sessions […]
BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Goldengrove, by Francine Prose Next reviews scheduled: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman (ARC from the publisher) Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (RYOB Challenge, Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge) – still reading this weekend to coincide with the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk that my family and I did yesterday, but I plan to finish and review it before the end of this week New […]
Tomorrow, my family and I will be walking a few miles to raise awareness and funds for the Alzheimer’s Association at the 2009 Memory Walk in Thousand Oaks, California. We do this every year in remembrance of my mother, who passed away ten years ago this month. I’ve had a donation widget in my sidebar for a few weeks, and I’d like to say a big, public THANK YOU to everyone who has supported our […]
Have you entered one of my three 1000-Post Celebration Giveaways yet? They’re still open for a few more days – the last day to enter is Wednesday, October 14! Here’s what you could win (you may enter only one giveaway): #1: ARC Fiction Package These Advance Reader editions have only been read once, and are in good condition. The links are to my reviews. Restriction: The winner takes them all – no picking and choosing! […]
