About Me
I'm on the right, posing with one of my awesome ex-roommates at a wedding in August 2009.
My name is Kim, and I am a 23-year-old master’s student student in 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. Eventually, I want to be a journalist at a locally-focused news organization, writing about community, arts, culture, or education.
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 to see how my tastes compare with yours.
I also have a recently created Review Policy for authors and publishers. Here are a few of my other favorite posts:
- Two of my favorite books from 2009 were The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. The latter earned the first “Perfect Score” review I’ve given.
- I’m also hosting a blogging activity called the 2009 Blog Improvement Project, which consists of twice monthly tasks to work on making blogs better. You can find out more at the About page or look at a full list of the tasks so far.
- 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.”
- In addition to blogging about books, I also occasionally post about my work as a journalist. During Spring 2009 I posted a series of articles about a multimedia project I put together for one of my classes. The first post was on the process of reporting for multimedia, and the final post was a link to my project titled “Free Spirit Dancing.”
Comments, questions, compliments, and other queries can be made through the contact information below.
Contact Information:
- sophisticated[dot]dorkiness[at]gmail[dot]com
- Follow me on Twitter: @kimthedork
- Friend me on StumbleUpon: kimukura
- My links on delicious
- View my page on Book Blogs
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I love the name of your blog.
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.
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.