Metadiscourse

Now that it’s July, it’s time to take a vote for the book from my growing TBR pile that I should read this month! This feature has turned into one of my favorites to do because it’s so interactive — you choose my book, then ask me questions about it for me to use in [...]

My sister Jenny and I have vastly different taste in books. Because I was an English major in college and therefore a bit of a literary snob, I sometimes take a little bit too much perverse pleasure in judging teasing her about her book tastes. She loves to read teen chick lit books like Meg [...]

Voting for what book I should read in May was close. But, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics was the winner, so that’s the book I will definitely be reading in May. Like last month, I’m going to do the review based on reader questions. Here’s a short summary via Wikipedia if you don’t know anything about [...]

Hooray! Today is my one year blogoversary! I wrote my Welcome Post for this blog on May 10, 2008, about a week before my college graduation, which doesn’t seem like it was a full year ago. In one year, I’ve written 254 posts. I’ve read 77 books, but not written quite that many reviews. I’ve [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Just a little bit though.  I finally made the leap and bought my own domain name.  Sophisticated Dorkiness can now be found at sophisticateddorkiness.com! All the old links should still forward to the new domain name, but from now on please link to the new address.  And just to be sure, if you can go [...]

Eva over at A Striped Armchair just posted a poll asking what book she should read next.  I’ve got a bunch of books in progress but don’t know which one to commit to, so I’m stealing her idea and asking for you help!  Below is a poll for you to vote which book I should [...]

I’m pretty amazed by some of the other 2008 wrap up posts I’ve read in the last couple days.  I never thought to keep track of so many stats and figures about the books I read; I just started being diligent about page numbers a few months ago!  Natasha at Maw Books had a ton [...]