BREAKING NEWS: GUESS WHO’S BEEN PUBLISHED – IN AN ACTUAL BOOK?! I haven’t previously shared the details of this with anyone except my husband because I didn’t entirely believe it would happen, but a post of mine from September 2007 has been published in an essay anthology. (I’m trying to sound matter-of-fact about it, but trust me, I’m totally SQUEE-ing on the inside!) Early last year, I received an e-mail “…to inquire about an essay […]
Tag: Sunday Salon
Sunday Salon: Conferencing, Bookmarking, questioning, and so on…
A query for those of you with e-book readers (regardless of brand): Do you find that your reading speed with an e-book differs from that with a print copy? I’m noticing that I don’t seem to read books on my Kindle as quickly as I read trade paperbacks, and I’m trying to figure out why. I’d understand it if I were multi-tasking – and, incidentally, I’ve found that the most successful way for me to […]
Sunday Salon 1/24/10: Bookmarking a Room of Your Own
Well, I’m trying again this year…it still may not happen, but I’d hate NOT to give it a shot. And I’m hoping you can help me do it! I’ve submitted a proposal for a Room of Your Own session at the BlogHer’10 conference (New York City, August 6-7) dedicated to book blogging. Here’s the description: Book Bloggers: Reading and Writing All About It Track: Passions Some of us started blogging just to talk about the […]
Sunday Salon
This is going to look a little bit like a book-related Sunday edition of Tuesday Tangents, but here goes: The Blogging Authors Reading Project is LIVE! It’s my first hosted challenge, but you’ll notice I’m not calling it a “challenge” – it’s a reading project, and not a very complicated one, either. Will you join me this year in reading books by authors who blog? Check out the announcement post, and if you’re in, let […]
Sunday Salon 1/10/10: Bookkeeping, Bookmarks, and a taste of things to come…
Do you remember the “blogging authors reading challenge” I was mulling over in last week’s Sunday Salon? It’s going to happen – but I’ve decided to call it a “project” as opposed to a “challenge,” since so many people are feeling over-challenged right now. I’ll announce the details later this week, and hope that some of you will think about taking it on along with me! I’m also working on a group reading project for […]
Sunday Salon: Bookkeeping and Challenging in 2010
I have an idea for a personal mini-challenge that would help make a dent in the ol’ TBR, count toward a couple of other reading challenges, and contribute favorably to blogger karma. Gotta love multitasking! One of the folders I use for feeds in Google Reader is called “author blogs,” which should be self-explanatory. In some cases, I read one of the author’s books first and then learned he or she had a blog, which […]
Sunday Salon 12/20: Challenging, planning, and bookmarking
A few weeks ago, Jennifer at The Literate Housewife Review brought up the idea of “Reading Deliberately.” It’s a concept I find intriguing, and one that’s gotten a lot of other book bloggers thinking and talking too. Part of “reading deliberately” seems to be ceasing to accept review books, or becoming much more selective about the books we’ll accept. I started to cut back on review books several months ago, and haven’t regretted it – […]
Sunday Salon: Bookkeeping and bookish thoughts
If you rate books – when you review them on your blog, and/or on your LibraryThing or GoodReads account – what does it take for a book to earn your highest rating? At our recent SoCal book-blogger meet-up, Amy posed that question to me. She knows I use a 5-point rating scale, and questioned whether I’d given a 5 to any books I read this year. Since I didn’t, she wanted to know: How would […]
Sunday Salon 12/6: “19 Days Till Christmas” edition
‘Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups. I’ve already participated in the Weekly Geeks‘ Book Bloggers’ Top 10 of 2009 preliminaries, and really need to find some time to think about my personal Books of the Year picks (can’t write a post about them till I decide what they are!). I expect those to differ a bit from the Top 10 list, since it’s based on books I read this year, regardless of when they were […]
Sunday Salon, Post-Thanksgiving edition: Bookkeeping, Bookmarks, and more
Does the holiday season take a big chunk out of your reading time? Between weekends spent shopping, decorating, and socializing and the normal daily routine, I find that I have fewer opportunities to settle down with a book, unless I can squeeze in a day off here and there (which I am doing a couple of times before Christmas, and possibly more once I know what my son’s travel plans for the holidays are). My […]
Sunday Salon 11/22: Bookkeeping, Bookmarks, etc.
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 […]
Sunday Salon, 11/15: Bookkeeping, Bookmarks, etc.
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 […]
