Audience Participation: Blogger Input Requested! This is a new one: I’ve been contacted by the author of an in-progress book on blogging professionally who would like to include interviews with some book bloggers who have found business success with their blogs. She’s actually looking for book reviewers here, not people who’ve used a blog to promote their own books, and “success” can be defined as meeting whatever income and/or recognition objectives you’ve set (acknowledging that […]
Audience Participation: Blogger Input Requested! Two items – one regional, one worldwide: If you’re a Southern California book blogger or author, have you given your input on a new site to help build up our connections to each other? If you missed the post about that earlier this week, or just haven’t responded yet, please read all about it and take our very short survey! Become part of a very ambitious project to collect one […]
I should know better, and yet every now and then I attempt it anyway. I’m currently reading polygamously – I have three books going at once. Technically, it’s four books, since one of them is a special edition containing two novels, but I’ve finished one of the stories in it; however, I won’t review that one until I finish the book itself. (I’m being a stickler, despite the fact that it may mean I won’t […]
Happy Friday! Here’s what I have to share with y’all this week: seven new-to-me blogs a collection of links that are a bit more thought-provoking than usual (must be something about autumn – the cool weather and short days must make some of us more reflective) a timely Blogthings personality quiz, and a Customer of the Week (fortunately, not my customer!) Also, if you haven’t already told me your favorite cover songs and your thoughts […]
I just looked at the calendar, and there are not quite eight weeks left in 2009 (!). Soon I’ll be putting together my Books of the Year picks and my Year in Review posts. It may be a little more challenging this year. I’ve read more books than the 35 I managed last year (yay!), and I’m pretty sure I’ll knock out a few more before the end of December. But I’ve also read quite […]
New Arrivals in my Google Reader Lit and Life Steele on Entertainment Average Girl Reads Meg’s Idle Chatter Shona’s Bookshelves Gen Xtinct (this is for my fellow lost children of the ’70’s and ’80’s!) My Sandwich Generation (for my fellow children whose parents may be in their 70’s and 80’s) The end of the year is rushing toward us, accompanied by THE HOLIDAYS! Book bloggers have their own way to celebrate: The Book Blogger Holiday […]
The Salon is on the short side this week – I think I’ve been in Readathon Recovery mode for most of it! BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: The Possibility of Everything, by Hope Edelman Next reviews scheduled: Love the One You’re With, by Emily Giffin The Hunger Games/Catching Fire (dual review), by Suzanne Collins Currently reading: The Longest Trip Home, by John Grogan (TLC Book Tour stop scheduled for November […]
Happy Birthday to my sister Teresa, who has neither a blog nor a Twitter account – but she is spending her birthday at Disneyland! I’ve changed the format of this post a bit – the links are at the end, so hopefully you won’t leave before you read the rest of it! New Arrivals in my Google Reader Lynne’s Letters Booklust Aiming Low Finding My America BlogHer.com has announced the Call for Ideas for sessions […]
See below for my final Read-a-thon Update! BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (this post includes a guest review from my sister) Next reviews scheduled: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman (ARC from the publisher) New to my LibraryThing “To Read” collection: for me, from the “biography and memoir” section: Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life, by Quinn Cummings Manhood […]
Tomorrow, my family and I will be walking a few miles to raise awareness and funds for the Alzheimer’s Association at the 2009 Memory Walk in Thousand Oaks, California. We do this every year in remembrance of my mother, who passed away ten years ago this month. I’ve had a donation widget in my sidebar for a few weeks, and I’d like to say a big, public THANK YOU to everyone who has supported our […]
If you’re visiting The 3 R’s for the first time via the Sunday Salon feed, welcome, and please take a look around! While you’re here, why not take a few minutes to enter one of my three 1000-Post Celebration Giveaways? They’re still open for a few more days – the last day to enter is Wednesday, October 14! Here’s what you could win (you may enter only one giveaway): #1: ARC Fiction Package These Advance […]
Have you entered one of my three 1000-Post Celebration Giveaways yet? They’re still open for a few more days – the last day to enter is Wednesday, October 14! Here’s what you could win (you may enter only one giveaway): #1: ARC Fiction Package These Advance Reader editions have only been read once, and are in good condition. The links are to my reviews. Restriction: The winner takes them all – no picking and choosing! […]
