Audiobooks. Everyone’s listening to them and loving them. Bloggers are doubling the books they are able to read in a month or year because of ’em. But me? I’ve been clinging to the visual experience of reading: holding a book or Kindle in my hands and seeing the words. This is a comforting experience for […]
I may or may not get a review up this week, and so I thought I’d do something different, since I haven’t had a discussion post in quite some time. As we all know, social media is full of land mines, and any misstep could result in negative consequences. I’ve had this blog going for over […]
I’ve been thinking about doing this for quite a while, and it’s only after finishing A Darker Shade of Magic that I’ve decided to finally go for it. I’ve seen other bloggers use a number rating system, rather than stars, and I quite like the idea of being able to dig deeper into stories and […]
I recently ran across a book cataloging website called Libib (I know, weird name, right?) and decided to try it out. FOR FREE, you can catalog your entire library of physical books (or movies, music & video games), where it’s stored online in a database that can be sorted in various ways—alphabetically by title or […]
Several years before I took the plunge and started this blog, I participated in Elle Magazine’s Elle’s Lettres Reader’s Prize, a book review program whereby Elle solicited interested readers to read and write short reviews of three current books, either fiction or non-fiction. You had to send in an application with a sample book review […]
This may have happened to you. You read a book and fall in love with it, write a rave review, put the review up on your blog, and months later you discover that a blurb from your review has made it into the author’s next book. It’s a pretty cool thing, and it’s only happened […]
(Note: all quotes in this post are taken from the sites listed below, and are direct quotes. They have not been altered in any way. Quotes are included in this post as information to support this discussion, and do not reflect my personal opinions on this subject.) There have been lots of discussion posts floating […]
Jamie at The Perpetual Page Turner has created this annual book survey, and this year I’m jumping in! At this time of year, I love reflecting on the past year, especially when it comes to all the books I’ve read. Some of these questions were very hard to answer, but I did my best. You […]
When I first started book blogging about two and a half years ago, I ran across so many terms that were unfamiliar to me. It was only after reading many blog posts that I began to accept these terms as “special” to the world of book blogging. This post is not based on any research […]