About Me

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I'm on the right, posing with one of my awesome ex-roommates at a wedding in August 2009.

I'm on the right, posing with one of my awesome ex-roommates at a wedding in August 2009.

Hello! My name is Kim — trade journalist by day, book blogger and freelance writer by night in the Madison, WI area.

I just graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I grew up in Minnesota, and got my BA from the University of Minnesota, Morris in May 2008.

What is my blog about? Book reviews, thoughts on journalism grad school, and other musings as I see fit, I suppose. I tend to read memoirs, literary journalism, and fiction. I also like comics and young adult fiction, but don’t get to read those as much and feel like an unqualified reviewer for those books.

I encourage you to check out my Reading List and Review Policy to see how my tastes compare with yours and whether I might be a good blogger to review a book.

Over the last year I’ve had a couple of amazing honors come my way thanks to the book blogging community. In September 2009 was shortlisted for Best Nonfiction Review Blog for Book Blogger Appreciation Week. In May 2010 I was a panelist at I the Book Blogger Convention talking about writing and building content. Wow.

Here are a few of my other favorite posts and projects:

  • My favorite poet is Billy Collins, and I highlighted some of his work in April 2009 for National Poetry Month. This post is about his poem “On Turning 10.”

Comments, questions, compliments, and other queries can be made through the contact information below.

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1 bermudaonion September 15, 2008 at 3:54 pm

I love the name of your blog.

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2 Elizabeth Moon April 21, 2009 at 9:55 am

Kim, I wanted to email you about your excellent blog and the Blog Improvement Project, but your email address (carefully copied and then its extraneous bits pruned) returned an error message.

I recently (late November 2008) started three project-specific, very focused blogs embedded in project-specific websites (two for books or book groups, one for a wildlife-management/prairie restoration project we’re doing which I hope will be documented in a book someday.) (Links on the website above.)

If you’re interested, please email me so that I can just hit “reply”…if not, no worries. We’re all busy (I’m about to get on a train to California and be gone a week) and we all have priorities–not trying to step on your toes.

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3 Esme
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February 26, 2010 at 5:39 pm

Kim I look forward to meeting you and spending time together-I am not sure if Sheila mentioned it, I am staying through Sunday morning-no-one is sharing the room with me although Sheila may stay on-if you want to stay-just let me know. Lucky you studying to be a journalist. Are there any photos of your kitties-they came to me when they were about 6-7 mos so I never knew them as kitties.

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4 The Girl from the Ghetto
Twitter:
June 3, 2010 at 1:55 pm

Kim, I have to say, you have the best blog name! I love it, especially since I am a huge dork. Might I admit I’m even a little jealous of it?

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