(Yes, I know, it’s another “Sunday Salon on Monday,” but this is a long holiday weekend in the USA. It’s also the unofficial kick-off of summer. Why are you sitting there reading blog posts?) At this time next week, many of us will be in New York City carrying out our various agendas for Book Expo America week. For some of us, the biggest attraction is the abundance of galleys and backlist books that publishers […]
I’m writing this post on Sunday, so technically it’s not late, but it’s not posting until Monday because, as of right now, I’ve only got one other post scheduled for this week and nothing in draft, so I’m spacing my meager contributions out just a bit. Most of you know the Book Bloggers’ Conundrum well: if you’re reading a lot, you’re probably not blogging, and vice versa. I’ve been reading…and I’m current on reviews for […]
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the American moms! If your wish for the day is some quality time alone with a book and your preferred beverage, I hope your family gifts you with that. Since my March NaBloPoMo adventure ended, my posting frequency here has dropped to about three times a week, and I’ve gotten surprisingly comfortable with that. However, I’ve just realized it’s been about six weeks since I last did a Reading […]
(Updated to correct a major grammar error in the post title, which will unfortunately live on in the permalink–color my face red, y’all!) When we started Armchair BEA in 2010, we had such a great time with it that all of us on the organizing team vowed that even if we had the opportunity to go to the real BEA, we’d still want to Armchair. This year, four of us–Danielle, Emily, Pam, and I–will be […]
I seem to be doing a bit of waffling lately. I haven’t decided whether I’m going to the BEA Bloggers Conference or the Book Blog UNCon–I’ve registered for both and may end up trying to split the difference. I hadn’t signed up for next weekend’s 24-Hour Readathon because I couldn’t decide whether I’d do that or go to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (which I missed last year). On Friday evening, I got […]
It’s time to help out a couple of needy libraries–the (almost) annual Dewey Donation System Book Drive is on! Source: deweydonationsystem.org via Florinda on Pinterest The Dewey Donation System is the charitable baby of author Pamela Ribon, who was first inspired to help the cash-strapped Oakland Public Library in 2003, and longtime Internet citizen David T. Cole, co-founder of Television Without Pity. There has been a drive almost every year since then to benefit struggling […]
There are so many things to talk about in the Salon today! Let’s hit the books first: The Indie Lit Awards winners were announced last Monday, and I began posting my reviews of the books that were considered in the Biography/Memoir category that same day. So far, I’ve discussed: I Pray Hardest When Being Shot At, by Kyle Garret Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, by Nina Sankovitch Bossypants, by Tina Fey (previously reviewed, but re-posted […]
My first post on The 3 R’s Blog was on March 16, 2007. The second post went up on March 18–five years ago today. (And then I didn’t post a third time until April.) A few days ago, I reflected on some of the developments I’ve seen on the way to this milestone. On my blogiversary itself, I shared a snapshot of my very first post. But celebrations are best suited for weekends…welcome to my fifth […]
We’re a week away from revealing the winners of the 2011 Indie Lit Awards, and the panels who will choose those books have been busily reading and discussing their short lists for the last few weeks. We’ve been asked not to post our reviews of these books until after the big announcement; look for those starting on March 19, but I’d like to introduce the finalists in my category, Biography/Memoir. These books have already had […]
My love for LibraryThing has been frequently declared–and documented. However, even before I joined LibraryThing four years ago, I signed up for a GoodReads account. Keeping up with my books online was new to me, and I wasn’t sure which site would work better for me…and GoodReads was free. (LibraryThing stops being free at 200 books, but my $25 lifetime membership has been a serious bargain.) It wasn’t long before I’d concluded that LT was […]
It must be a side effect of not going to church–Lent totally snuck up on me this year. As of this past Wednesday, it’s meatless Fridays and no buying books until Easter. And I didn’t realize it was coming until it was too late to indulge in a last-minute book-buying binge. The meatless Fridays are a church tradition I continue to observe even if I don’t attend Mass, and they’re really not that difficult to […]
I’ve been reading in print, audio and e-book for the Indie Lit Awards all month, and that includes yesterday, today, and on my day off tomorrow–we vote on the short lists at the beginning of March. I’ve got Shelf Awareness galleys stacked up with April and May pub dates. I’ve signed up for another BlogHer Book Club for next month. I think it’s important to note that I’m not doing any of this reading under […]
