I finally finished going through one column of people signed up for the Read-a-Thon at the original Mr. Linky. That’s 61 blogs in, I’d say, 2 hours. Wow… I might not actually get to comment on all the blogs since it’s taking me so long and I still have two full columns. That’s sort of [...]
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After looking at all of the comics, I decided that I just couldn’t pick winners for each category. So, I’m going to leave all of them in the running for the $10 egift-certificate and leave the decision up to you guys :) Below are the submitted comics. Head down to the bottom of the post [...]
I missed the first few hours of the Read-a-Thon because I was out at the Farmer’s Market, but now I’m here and doing my best to cheerlead and hang out for the afternoon. So far no takers on my mini-challenge about making a comic, but I hope people will like it! Anyway, I hope everyone [...]
Welcome to my Mini-Challenge for the Read-a-Thon! Comic books have become very popular lately, so I wanted to try and honor that with my mini-challenge. The task, should you choose to participate, is to create your own comic inspired by the Read-a-Thon! Logistics For the next three hours, Readers and Cheerleaders are challenged to create [...]
Yesterday I spent the morning with my family celebrating Easter and the afternoon on a five hour bus trip back to Madison, so no time for a Sunday Salon. I did have a fabulous reading week, however, and wanted to write a little bit about that this morning before school takes hold. Lu at Regular [...]
Congrats to Nicole from Linus’s Blanket on winning a copy of The Orchid Thief! Nicole, send me an e-mail at sophisticated[dot]dorkiness @ gmail[dot]com with your address and I’ll send you the book next week! Thanks to everyone else that entered, I’m glad the contest seemed like a good idea. If I had more books to [...]
I just wanted to post a quick reminder to check out my giveaway of The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean! Together, the winner and I will pick a date to have the book finished by, then we’ll have a conversation about it that we can both post as a review of the book. Sounds cool, [...]
Last week I asked people to vote for what book I should read next. Readers chose The Hours by Michael Cunningham, which so far has been awesome! The book has three narrative strands — author Virginia Woolf writing Mrs. Dalloway, society woman Clarissa Vaughan planning a party, and 1950s housewife Laura Brown struggling with her [...]
Musings on blogging conversation: One of the things I love about book blogging is the sense of community between book bloggers. However, the thing that I still miss about reading in my English classes is getting to have a conversation about a book. Sure, we can review books and get comments on our blogs, but [...]
