By the Numbers Summing up my 2011 reading experiences starts with some bookkeeping in the number-crunching sense.Total books read: 54Fiction: 33 Adult: 30 YA/Children’s: 3 2010 was the first year in which I read enough YA to make note of it. I probably don’t need to separate it out for 2011, but the precedent is set now. Since YA books tend to be faster reads and they’re taking up more room in TBR Purgatory these […]
Bookkeepers (the “my day job” kind) I’d be lying if I said that the possibility of making some money from writing wasn’t lurking somewhere in my mind when I started blogging here. I wasn’t sure it would happen from blogging, but I did hope that blogging would open some doors to paid writing opportunities in other venues (and it has, but it took four years to get there!). But I’ve also had some chances to […]
This post is inspired by Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Blog Audience by Writing More Better, by Margaret Andrews. I was given a signed copy of this book by the author with no obligation to blog about it. Quotes are used with permission. All opinions are my own. Buy links are provided for readers’ convenience; I have no affiliation with any of the retailers listed. As I just said, I “was given” a […]
This post is inspired by Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Blog Audience by Writing More Better, by Margaret Andrews. I was given a signed copy of this book by the author with no obligation to blog about it. Quotes are used with permission. All opinions are my own. Buy links are provided for readers’ convenience; I have no affiliation with any of the retailers listed. A blogger can find plenty of information about […]
At last, I’ve got some blogging time on my hands, so I thought I’d take a “3 R’s” approach to a post about why there hasn’t been much posting on The 3 R’s lately. Reading Despite appearances to the contrary, I’m reading pretty steadily–it’s just not necessarily showing up in reviews here (or in comments on your blogs!). My “moonlighting” gig with Shelf Awareness means that they get the reviews for the books they provide […]
Most of you know – either because you participated yourself, or because you just couldn’t escape all the posts from bloggers who were participating – that last week was Book Blogger Appreciation Week. The 2011 BBAW theme was “Cultivating a Community of Bloggers and Readers.” I posted according to the daily BBAW prompts on four of the five days, and had a wonderful time re-connecting with old book-blogging friends and getting to know new ones, which was what […]
The fact that the 2011 BlogHer Conference starts today in San Diego may not mean much to some folks who read here, particularly those who don’t blog at all, blog only about books, or are guys (all four of you). But there are others who read here – and whose blogs I read in return – for whom this is A Very Big Deal. I went to BlogHer’09 in Chicago and BlogHer’10 in New York […]
I’m carrying on with my summer hours – I haven’t posted since Sunday, and I haven’t really had time to compose full-length reactions to a few things I’ve read about recently, so this post will be a bit of a potpourri. I’ll begin with a personal update, in case you missed it on Facebook or Twitter on Monday: I do believe the Shoulder Saga has come to an end! I originally dislocated my right shoulder […]
Thanks to Serena for tweeting the link to this item, which got under a large expanse of book-blogger skin on Twitter yesterday, and to Sassymonkey for the tweet that inspired this post’s title. Daniela Hurezanu shared some not-very-favorable impressions of last month’s Book Expo America on the website for Santa Cruz Weekly – but she provoked some not-very-favorable reactions with her characterization of the book bloggers she met there: “BEA is a major event for […]
Inspired by Wallace’s post “How to Get the Most Out of GoodReads” (and a follow-up Twitter discussion with her), I thought I’d tackle my preferred online book site, LibraryThing, in a similar vein. I hope it will be at least half as useful as her GR guide is! I have a GoodReads account. I have friends on GoodReads through that account. They may wonder why they see so few updates from me there… Here’s why. […]
A few weeks ago, I did something unusual here: I revealed where I work and what we do there. I had a good reason, though (and by the way, have you voted for our project yet? Voting’s open till March 31!) – and I got permission first. Our staff was asked to communicate to our social networks in an e-mail from the CEO: “Their process is to have people vote ‘on line’ for their favorite […]
