Karen’s comment on my entry for last week’s Weekend Assignment made me stop and think for a minute: “It’s interesting that your habits have changed on (re-reading). Is it that your reading horizons expanded with adulthood so you had access to more books TBR, or was it more a question of awareness of a wider range of books in which to be interested? It sounds as though your recent rereading is pretty much all […]
For the second year in a row, I’m publicly saying NO to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I love to read, and I love to write. Also, I love to write about what I read, otherwise my blog would never have been born. I think there are some truths about life and humanity and why we are the way we are that are best explored through fiction. I think that fiction can help us […]
Here’s an idea: Via Shelf Awareness, I read about an online book club that would charge members $15-$30 for such privileges as being supplied with ARCs four to six months in advance of publication and participating in author chats – and supposedly, publishers are receptive to it. This endeavor is being launched on a pilot basis by the women’s website wowOwow.com and was the subject of a Forbes.com story last week. I couldn’t really find […]
I often come across book reviews that include statements like “I didn’t know anything about this book before I read it” or “I avoided reading the jacket copy” – something along the lines of wanting to go into the reading experience without much advance knowledge of what was coming. The blurb for Chris Cleave’s novel Little Bee totally plays off this: “We don’t want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a […]
I don’t have a theme for this Sunday’s Salon – I’m a bit random this week. HELD OVER – Banned Books Week: After reading Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, I’ve decided to stretch out Banned Books Week a little longer and pull out two books I’d set aside for my failed Shelf Discovery Challenge. Forever… by Judy Blume and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle are very different from each other, but they’ve both been […]
I’m very much in favor of the freedom to read what one chooses to read – and in order to make those choices well, one needs access to the full range of choices. I also believe in the freedom to choose not to read something. But I believe those rights belong to the individual and not to any institution (with an exception, perhaps, for parents of young children regarding what those children read in their […]
Congrats to The Sunday Salon for winning “Best Meme” in the BBAW Awards this past week – that makes all of us Saloners winners too! Another Book Blogger Appreciation Week has come to an end, and while it was indeed “a treasure chest of infinite books and infinite blogs,” it unfortunately lacked infinite time to experience them all! I hope to catch up on the posts I missed by the end of this weekend, and […]
BBAW 2010: A Treasure Chest of Infinite Books and Infinite Blogs Wednesday—Unexpected Treasure We invite you to share with us a book or genre you tried due to the influence of another blogger. What made you cave in to try something new and what was the experience like? If you’re a regular reader here, my response to this topic won’t be a surprise to you. I give credit for my recent explorations into the category […]
One of the best things about BBAW is getting to know your fellow book bloggers a little better, and one of my favorite ways to do that is the Interview Swap. Last year I met Jana of Will Work for Books, and two years ago, in the first BBAW Interview, I was paired with Kathy from Bermudaonion. This year, my interview victim partner is Kt from A Book Obsession. She’s only been blogging since this […]
BBAW has an overall theme this year: “A Treasure Chest of Infinite Books and Infinite Blogs.” Monday—First Treasure We invite you to share with us about a great new book blog you’ve discovered since BBAW last year! If you are new to BBAW or book blogging, share with us the very first book blog you discovered. Tell us why this blog rocks your socks off and why you keep going back for more. If you […]
Tomorrow is the first day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week! But you know, without writers, there would be no reason for book bloggers to exist. Therefore, I’m excited to tell you that Book Blogger Appreciation Week has joined up with She Writes! Are you familiar with She Writes? In its own words, here’s what this online community is all about: “She Writes is a community and a workplace for women who write, with over 11,000 […]
I didn’t respond to last week’s Weekly Geeks prompt, “Who Do You Connect With?”, but I’ve been pondering it, and a recent post from one of the non-book-bloggers I follow seemed to track with my line of thought. Miss Britt shared some of the reasoning behind her decision not to start a dedicated travel blog to chronicle her family’s upcoming year of travel through the USA: “I’m going to write about the trip. I’m going […]
