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I didn’t get much reading done this week, which is too bad because I got two books from inter-library loan (The Magicians by Lev Grossman and Making Toast by Ron Rosenblatt) that I only have 14 days to read! Gah!
Instead of reading, I’ve been working on a mid-term paper about the ethics of objectivity and [...]
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I’m so excited to share that I get to be a guest on That’s How I Blog, a show hosted by Nicole of Linus’s Blanket. We’ll be chatting about books and blogging and gossip, starting tonight, March 2 at 8 p.m. CST. Then at the end we’ll talk about Susan Jane Gilman’s memoir Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven!
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Happy Monday, everyone! I wanted to use today to introduce you to the newest member of my family, my cat Hannah. I adopted Hannah from the Dane County Humane Society on Saturday, and so far things are going really well. She’s a sweet, mellow cat, but she loves to play too. She also loves to stick her head in my books and climb all over me when I read, so that might be an adventure.
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Congrats! We’re at the last week of the Blog Improvement Project — a year smarter and, hopefully, a year better at blogging. This post has details for the final task, as well as information (and a request) regarding the future of the BIP.
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It hit me a few nights ago just how much I love everything about reading.
I love being asked for a book recommendation, then giving one I think is exactly right.
I love looking at my bookshelves and knowing every book on it, the story, the characters, the cover, the feelings when I finished.
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I feel like December is always a time of wrapping up loose ends, trying to make sure projects didn’t get forgotten or tasks didn’t get ignored so I can start out the new year feeling refreshed and ready to go. I love the feeling of starting fresh every 365 days.
In the spirit of finishing up, [...]
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Part of BIP Week #20 was to leave suggestions about how to do Random Acts of Kindness around the blogosphere. I promised to do a wrap-up post of some of the best ideas, so here it is. Be inspired to be kind!
Bloggers Acts of Kindness
Anastasia (Bird Brain(ed) Book Blog) suggested “If someone links to one [...]
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So this is about a week late, and for that I apologize. As I mentioned in a previous post, last week just got away from me and I didn’t have time to think about the BIP until about Thursday night. I decided to wait until today to post so there was more time to do [...]
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Comments, Categories, and Social Media — Oh My!
by Kim on March 4, 2010 · 14 comments
I’m combining three of blog-business posts into one with this, because I don’t like it when my blog gets overrun with posts not actually about books. This week, Weekly Geeks wanted to look at commenting, a topic I think is really important to think about as a blogger. The task for the Blog Improvement Project is to look into categories and tags — two administrative tools that help keep blogs organized and can help search engines find you blog. And finally, a few bloggers (My Friend Amy, Beth Fish Reads, others?) posted social media policies yesterday, which inspired me to do the same
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