Today’s Topic: Sure we’ve all read about Freedom and Mockingjay but we likely have a book we wish would get more attention by book bloggers, whether it’s a forgotten classic or under marketed contemporary fiction. This is your chance to … Continue reading
Today we invite you to share with us a book or genre you tried due to the influence of another blogger. What made you cave in to try something new and what was the experience like? Blogging has led me … Continue reading
Today are the BBAW Interview Swaps, and I was paired up with Other Other Jill. Okay, that’s not really her name. But her name is Jill, which makes her the third blogging Jill that I know. Since I already refer … Continue reading
Do you know what tomorrow is? Yup, it’s the start of Book Blogger Appreciation Week! And what’s a community event without a song! Yes, you’re right to be worried…the read-a-thon is coming and I’m warming up to be a cheerleader … Continue reading
Ahoy, mateys! Since it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day I invited the gang over (you know, Anne Bonny, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan), and asked them to draw and quarter some numbers for the winners of my 5 Recent Reads giveaway. After … Continue reading
I’ve always said I’d never buy an eReader…but that doesn’t mean I won’t try to win one! The awesome Kevin Hamilton of IREX (and yes, that was me brown-nosing…do you think it’ll help?) is offering up an eReader to one … Continue reading
Today’s prompt for BBAW is a reading meme: We encourage you to be creative with this! Please choose one or two questions to answer or try to answer all the questions in five words or less. Or choose a picture … Continue reading
Today is the day for blogger interviews! My partner for this fun is Colette, at A Buckeye Girl Reads. As she says on her blog, Colette is “an avid reader who will read just about anything, but has a weakness … Continue reading
Today is the first day of BBAW! Woo-hoo! I’ll be participating in the daily writing prompts all week. To start us off, we’re asked to write a post thanking and spotlighting your favorite blogs that didn’t make the shortlists. I … Continue reading
To contribute to the BBAW festivities, I’m holding a giveaway featuring 5 of some of my more recent reads. Why 5? Because there are 5 days of BBAW! And I’m excited about each and every one of them! The 5 … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
