Tuesday Thingers: questions for LibraryThing users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner This week, our question is inspired by all the group threads that are dedicated to finding the next great book to review. In order review books on your blog – you’ve got to GET books! Today’s question: How do you get your books for reviewing? Do you track them somehow (excel, database, etc), or just put them in a TBR (To Be Read for […]
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TBIF: Thank blog it’s Friday (the 13th)! This week in memes
Mailbox Monday, hosted at The Printed Page I’m not sure whether I should really include these books in “Mailbox Monday,” since I don’t normally announce books that I buy in posts. Also, technically, these were left at my door by UPS and weren’t in the mailbox. But they did come from Amazon.com, and were mostly paid for by gift certificate, so in a way someone else bought them (or at least two of them, anyway). […]
POST #800: Weekly Geeks 2009-05: Cover Story
Weekly Geeks 2009-05 This week’s geektastic task comes from Becky of Becky’s Book Reviews : This week it’s all about judging books by their covers! Pick a book–any book, really–and search out multiple book cover images for that book. They could span a decade or two (or more)…Or they could span several countries. Which cover is your favorite? Which one is your least favorite? Which one best ‘captures’ what the book is about? LibraryThing has […]
Some of my F-favorite things
I’ve decided to stop holding out on the “favorite things/alphabet” meme. You’ve probably seen it going around – someone who has already done the meme assigns you a letter, and you have to list ten things you love that begin with that letter. You do have to request the letter, though – I asked Kathy from Bermudaonion to assign me one, and she chose the letter F for me (guess why?). These are a few […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday! A week’s worth of meme-ery (2-6-09)
Tuesday Thingers: Questions for LibraryThing Users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner Today’s question: Do you post links to your reviews? Here on Library Thing, or anywhere else? How else do you like to promote your site? My Answer: I post an excerpt and a link to each book review I post in the book’s record on LibraryThing, but I’m not active in the forums there, so I don’t link anywhere else on the site. Right […]
The one where I answer five questions
I’ve been seeing these blogger-interview posts lately in which one blogger posts the answers to five questions about her/himself asked by another blogger. The interesting thing is that the subjects don’t wait to be invited – they have asked to be interviewed by a blogger who has already been through the exercise. Usually I’m the wait-to-be-asked type, but blogging seems to be making me more forward, and I decided I wanted to play too. Dawn […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday! A week’s worth of meme-ery, 1-30-09
Tuesday Thingers: Questions for LibraryThing users, hosted at Wendi’s Book Corner Library Thing is attempting to gain help from librarians and readers alike to redo the old Dewey Decimal system of book classification, creating a newer system called Open Shelves Classification or OSC (click on the link to read a little about the vision on the LT Blog). The librarians have already helped to create the main categories, and they are now looking for readers […]
Weekly Geeks 2009-03: Classic examples
In the third Weekly Geeks of 2009, Ali has proposed some “fun with the classics,” and has offered a choice of four questions to answer (you have to do at least two, but can do all four if you wish). The applicable definition of classic for this assignment is “anything written over 100 years ago and still in print.” (If your memory needs jogging, see Classic Literature Library for examples.) For your assignment this week, […]
Ten on Tuesday: Clothes call
This week’s Ten on Tuesday topic is one of my favorite subjects – clothes! One of my early career ambitions was to be a fashion illustrator and/or work with a designer, and while that didn’t last long, it did fuel a lifelong interest in clothes and fashion. I (usually) enjoy clothes shopping, and not just for myself, either. This week prompt asks for “10 Favorite Articles of Clothing You Own,” and I’m afraid I’m fudging […]
TBIF 1-23-09: A week of meme-ery
Mailbox Monday, hosted at The Printed Page I’ve never participated in Mailbox Monday before, and I doubt I’ll be able to do it often, since I really don’t get all that many books in the mail. Last week was unusual, though, and four new books came my way thanks to the Post Office – all of them are for review, and I hope to get to them sooner rather than later. Last Wednesday, I received […]
WG 2009-02: The meaning of “Weekly Geek”(iness)
For our second Weekly Geeks of the new year and our second post without our founder Dewey, Joanne of The Book Zombie has these questions: For those who have been with the group, either from the start or joined within recent months, what does being a member mean to you? What do you enjoy about the group? What are some of your more memorable Weekly Geeks that we might could do again? What could be […]
Booking Through Thursday on Monday: Behind the music (and lyrics)
Booking Through Thursday: Sing! Sing a Song… But, enough about books … Other things have words, too, right? Like … songs! If you’re anything like me, there are songs that you love because of their lyrics; writers you admire because their songs have depth, meaning, or just a sheer playfulness that has nothing to do with the tunes. So, today’s question? What songs … either specific songs, or songs in general by a specific group or […]
