No big announcements or overall theme this week – just links, and the questions a couple of them spawned… Question of the week #1: Do you share your blogging with your “real-life” family and friends? I always have, but I know they don’t always read it. Sometimes I’ve had mixed feelings about that; occasionally there’s something I’d like to work through in writing but not necessarily share with people who see me in person – […]
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Sunday Salon: What’s Valentine’s Day got to do with it? (Pretty much nothing, to be honest.)
Booking Through Thursday asked a very good question this week: How can you encourage a non-reading child to read? What about a teen-ager? Would you require books to be read in the hopes that they would enjoy them once they got into them, or offer incentives, or just suggest interesting books? If you do offer incentives and suggestions and that doesn’t work, would you then require a certain amount of reading? At what point do […]
Week-end Review: Travels around the Blogiverse this week
Many thanks to Kathleen of Boarding in My Forties for sharing the One Lovely Blog Award with me! Kathleen and I are relatively new blog acquaintances, but we’ve got a good bit in common – books and blogging, living in California, our age group – and I’m glad to have gotten to know her. If you haven’t met her yourself yet, go visit her blog and correct that oversight soon! I’m breaking the “pass it […]
Sunday Salon: Guess who’s in a book? No, really!
BREAKING NEWS: GUESS WHO’S BEEN PUBLISHED – IN AN ACTUAL BOOK?! I haven’t previously shared the details of this with anyone except my husband because I didn’t entirely believe it would happen, but a post of mine from September 2007 has been published in an essay anthology. (I’m trying to sound matter-of-fact about it, but trust me, I’m totally SQUEE-ing on the inside!) Early last year, I received an e-mail “…to inquire about an essay […]
Week-End Review: Travels across the blogiverse this week
Four years ago today, Tall Paul proposed to me on Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara. I said yes. Weather permitting, we’re hoping to revisit the scene of the crime this weekend. What do you have planned? I heard there’s a big football game or something on Sunday. Dispatches: Links of the Week Making assumptions about parenting, whether they involve your kids or your pets; making decisions about your kids’ schooling when none of the options […]
Sunday Salon: Conferencing, Bookmarking, questioning, and so on…
A query for those of you with e-book readers (regardless of brand): Do you find that your reading speed with an e-book differs from that with a print copy? I’m noticing that I don’t seem to read books on my Kindle as quickly as I read trade paperbacks, and I’m trying to figure out why. I’d understand it if I were multi-tasking – and, incidentally, I’ve found that the most successful way for me to […]
Week-end Review: This week around the blogiverse
Have you voted for a “Room of (Y)our Own” for Book Bloggers at BlogHer’10? It won’t cost you anything, and you don’t even have to be going to BlogHer’10 – I’m just asking for your support for a great idea! Will you help make it happen? I did this a few months ago, but can’t recall if I mentioned it here at the time; I’ve set up my “shared items” from Google Reader to go […]
Week-End Review, 1/22/10: This week around the Blogiverse
Not too many distractions this week – the link round-up actually IS mostly links! Go forth and read, and have a nice weekend! New Arrivals in my Google Reader Books Blogroll Musings Dispatches: Links of the Week When the whole world is your community, compassion can be complicated “Real” kids, “not-real” kids, and “shiny happy stupid” ideas kids learn from their parents; parents may need to learn that “average” kids are all right So much […]
Week-End Review: This week around the blogiverse
$$ Delurking and Donating – Keeping it Going! $$ 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 […]
Sunday Salon 1/10/10: Bookkeeping, Bookmarks, and a taste of things to come…
Do you remember the “blogging authors reading challenge” I was mulling over in last week’s Sunday Salon? It’s going to happen – but I’ve decided to call it a “project” as opposed to a “challenge,” since so many people are feeling over-challenged right now. I’ll announce the details later this week, and hope that some of you will think about taking it on along with me! I’m also working on a group reading project for […]
Week-End Review: Links from all over, plus Bloggiesta 2.0!
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 […]
Sunday Salon: Bookkeeping and Challenging in 2010
I have an idea for a personal mini-challenge that would help make a dent in the ol’ TBR, count toward a couple of other reading challenges, and contribute favorably to blogger karma. Gotta love multitasking! One of the folders I use for feeds in Google Reader is called “author blogs,” which should be self-explanatory. In some cases, I read one of the author’s books first and then learned he or she had a blog, which […]
