If I were to link to all the BlogHer’09 recap posts out there – and you know I’d do that; I’ve done it before, when I haven’t even been there myself – I would never get any of my own impressions about it written up to share. There are a few things I’ll mention here that I’ll expand on in subsequent posts, but I thought I’d start the ball rolling with some BlogHer Bullet Points. […]
I’ll be glad to make room and share the corner, though. It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone with a blog and plans to attend a conference must write a post prior to said conference discussing her hopes, plans, and fears surrounding her attendance at the event. This is mine. Too early on Thursday morning, I’m boarding a plane at LAX headed for Chicago, a city I’ve never visited before and probably won’t get […]
Welcome back for the second edition of “You’ve got Q’s, I’ve got A’s,” in which I will visit a few more of the respondents to my blogiversary survey and address the questions they left for me. And for those of you who missed – or skipped – the survey the first time around, I’m re-printing it at the end of this post. C’mon, y’all, I really don’t enjoy groveling…but it would make me very happy […]
The “Saturday Review” will be back next week in its regularly scheduled time slot. Due to blog-reading backlog as a side effect of Disneyland, it’s being pre-empted in order to answer questions from this week’s survey responders. (Did you take the survey, by the way? It’s not too late!) This is the first installment of “You’ve got Q’s, I’ve got A’s” – another will be posted soon, so don’t worry if your query isn’t addressed […]
In a recent comment about some links in one of my Saturday Reviews, Lenore said… “Gosh I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Mommy blogs. I am very focused in my blog reading on book blogs I guess.” I’m definitely less focused. My interests are pretty wide-ranging, and so is my blog reading. On the Internet, I’m a bit of a wanderer, but I find that I have two communities that feel […]
This year – my first full year of blogging! – I established my postings on a general schedule, and as much as possible, I drafted posts in advance and used Blogger’s “scheduled posts” function (thank you for getting that out of draft, Blogger!) to publish. I tried to stick to one post per day, and by the second half of the year, I wasn’t usually posting on Sundays; they became my main writing and catch-up […]
Participating in NaBloPoMo last year was good experience in establishing a schedule for writing and posting, and I wanted to carry it forward into 2008. I was also discovering that I wanted to do more posts that gave me a chance to stretch my muscles with the “second R” in my blog title. Of the 157 posts (at this count) labeled as “‘riting,” 98 of them were done in 2008, so it looks like there’s […]
My Book Talk Master List, which is always linked in my sidebar, contains links to all the posts where I have reviewed books, and has been updated for 2008 year-to-date. Strictly from a number-crunching perspective, 35 books works out to about 1.5 weeks per book or 0.6 books per week, which is probably not bad generally, but for someone who counts herself as a member of the book-blogging community, it’s just sad. If I were […]
While we’re reviewing…I came across this meme via Average Jane, and adapted it.Rules: Paste the first line of your first post AND the last line of your last post for each month, starting with January 2007. Links are optional. Well, my blog did not exist until March 2007, but I’m playing anyway. March start – I’m not sure how much I remember about some of these now, so the notes may not be too long.March […]
Via Laurie at Team Building is for Suckers: What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?I went to Catalina Island, where we celebrated our first wedding anniversary. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?I didn’t make them this year – I usually don’t. I don’t think that January 1 has any magical power to change people. But I did make a list of ten […]
It’s an old question, but a good one . . . What were your favorite books this year? List as many as you like … fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance, science-fiction, business, travel, cookbooks … whatever the category. But, really, we’re all dying to know. What books were the highlight of your reading year in 2007?Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the […]
His Lovely Wife, by Elizabeth Dewberry I was intrigued by my introduction to this novel as a DearReader.com Fiction Book Club selection earlier this year, which prompted me to buy a copy to finish it. I chose it as my pick for my offline Book Club to read for our September meeting, and we just met to discuss the book on Friday night. By consensus, this isn’t going to go on record as one of […]
