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I love doing book stats posts. Nerdy, I know, but it’s just so oddly satisfying. There’s something fun about quantifying books and writing that I can’t quite explain.
Anyway, this year I did stats posts at 20 books, six months, and again at nine months. Since it’s finally the end of 2010, here’s a year in review of book stats.
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While I’m not always sure how interesting year in review posts are, I think it’s a good thing to go back over and year and see where you’ve been. It helps give a direction for where you decide you’re going. So here’s a look back at 2010 at Sophisticated Dorkiness, including my favorite books of the year each month.
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This is a story that I wrote for the magazine I work for in my real life, a trade magazine for design engineers. Since the story is full of great books — many that I’ve recommended to people who are not engineers — I decided to post it here too. You can read the article in its original form here (and as a bonus, see my silly editorial headshot).
Engineers ‘Just Think Differently’
It’s hard to find presents for engineers. If you need help, here’s PD&D’s holiday guide to great books for even the pickiest design engineer.
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I mentioned last month that I was working on the Independent Literary Awards, which is a series of new book awards given out by literary bloggers. We’ve been soliciting nominations from book bloggers for the last couple of months of some of your favorite reads from 2010.
Guess what? Today is the very last day to nominate titles, and we could really use your help, book bloggers! I’d especially love more non-fiction nominations, since that’s the panel I’m the judge for.
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I’m finally back to blogging, woo! But instead of posting here, I’m over with a guest post for Sheila at Book Journey while she’s having fun in Honduras.
If you head on over to Book Journey to read my post, you’ll learn which of these stylish young ladies, circa the mid-1990s, is me and what we’re doing. Plus, there’s a recipe for my favorite cookie in the entire world.
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So, I’m helping out with this little project called the Independent Literary Awards, which is process of awards given out by literary bloggers (fancier sounding that book bloggers, yes?). I just joined the awards group last week, and I’ll be serving as a judge for the Non-Fiction Panel. That basically just means I’m an organizer, and get to work closely with the rest of the Non-Fiction Panelists.
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Today I’m in Minnesota for the Twin Cities Book Festival. In order to not get too far behind with my book festival wrap-up posts, here’s the bookish news from the Wisconsin Book Festival, which I went to a few weeks ago.
Unlike years past, I actually got out and attended some events. I’m usually the kind of person that prefers to spend free time in sweat pants on my couch, so this was a big deal. I didn’t take many any pictures, so it’ll just be a wordy wrap-up.
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Today the National Book Awards got announced, and while most of the discussion is about the fiction list (and authors that got left off), I thought I’d pull the nonfiction list and share some impressions.
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Starting yesterday, literary folks in Wisconsin have gathered for the Wisconsin Book Festival, an annual event that celebrates books and writing and all of those fun things! I missed the festival the first year I was in Madison, but managed to go last year and wrote up about a few events.
I’m actually traveling for work today and quite busy this weekend with a birthday party, but I’m hoping to get to at least a few events. If you’re a reader in the Madison area, these are some of my recommendations for things that should be interesting. The full schedule is also available online.
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