It’s been what, like six days since I last posted? I didn’t meant abandon Sophisticated Dorkiness for that long, but once I finished my book blogging paper (which you can download and read by clicking on the link), I just lost all motivation to do anything that involved thinking. So, no books read and no [...]
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Now that I’m back in Madison, I have time to think about NaBloPoMo. Overall, I enjoyed the challenge of finding something interesting to post every day. I actually think I succeeded pretty well and kept most of my posts related to my primary blogging topics. Here are the rest of my blogging-relates thoughts from the [...]
Last week, Marg at ReadingAdventures posted a link to The Typealyzer, a system that reads texts online and then uses that to guess the writer’s personality type. Here is my result: ESFP – The Performers The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with [...]
At the end of October I had a celebration for my 100th blog post and decided to host my first giveaway. I asked people to comment, link to the post, and otherwise help me think about my blog. The winner of a book of their choice from my blog is Care from Care’s Online Book [...]
Do you ever had weeks where it feels like you’ve managed to accomplish absolutely nothing? That’s pretty much this week for me. Between Halloween weekend and the election, I’ve been feeling totally discombobulated. Hence, my October Wrap-Up Post is coming pretty late into November. I’m just that far off this week. I would say the [...]
Over the last week or so I’ve been asking for comments and opinions about a variety of topics and gotten a ton of responses from other bloggers. I love that so much! I figured an update post was in order, in case other people are as negligent about going back to see updated conversations when [...]
I started this little blog in May 2008, and have finally reached the auspicious marker of 100 blog posts! In honor of this exciting moment, I’ve decided to hold my first two giveaways. The first prize is a copy of any book I have read and reviewed on this blog. This prize is available only [...]
A few friends and fellow book bloggers have recently mentioned NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write a 175-page (about 50,000 word) novel between November 1 and November 30. This sounds cool, but I’m not a novelist so it’s not really my thing. However, also ran across NaBloPoMo — National Blog [...]
Last weekend was the Wisconsin Book Festival, and although I didn’t go to any events because I’m lame, I did pick up a few new books. Our campus book store had a whole display of used copies of EW 100 New Classics… how was I supposed to resist? Luckily, I reorganized the big bookshelf in [...]
Yesterday afternoon I went to a seminar on “Productive and Professional Blogging” hosted by our campus writing center. One thing that stuck out to me was the importance of titling and subtitling your blog. Luckily for me, “Sophisticated Dorkiness” is a pretty decent blog title (I think, anyway). However, if you check out my top [...]
