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Registering for BBAW

by Kim on July 6, 2010 · 6 comments

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Book Blogger Appreciation Week is coming up from September 17 – 17, 2010. As part of the process of being part of the directory and being able to vote on awards, as well as being eligible for awards, bloggers need to register.

I’m just sneaking this in a day before the deadline, which is tomorrow (July 7). If you haven’t registered yet, you should do it — even if you don’t want to be nominated for an award, registering helps put your blog in a category and be part of choosing blogs in your peer group.

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“The person…who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.”

by Kim on December 16, 2009 · 21 comments

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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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Blog Improvement Project Week #21: Guest Posts!

by Kim on November 9, 2009 · 15 comments

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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Go Big Read: A Campus Common Reader

by Kim on August 28, 2009 · 18 comments

One of the things I miss most about my undergrad English classes is having people to sit down and talk about a book with. Blogging is great, but sometimes I just miss talking with a group of people. I might be in luck, however, because this year UW is trying a new campus common reading [...]

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A Secret Blogging Alliance?

by Kim on August 26, 2009 · 81 comments

Yesterday morning I tweeted about an article from Problogger about a secret blogging alliance he stumbled across while interviewing one of the members. Basically, it’s a group of seven bloggers, all about the same size in their particular niche, that teleconference weekly and work together on all sorts of blog projects. Of the seven, five [...]

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May Readers' Choice Award

by Kim on May 12, 2009 · 6 comments

Voting for what book I should read in May was close. But, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics was the winner, so that’s the book I will definitely be reading in May. Like last month, I’m going to do the review based on reader questions. Here’s a short summary via Wikipedia if you don’t know anything about [...]

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Happy One Year Blogoversary!

by Kim on May 10, 2009 · 33 comments

Hooray! Today is my one year blogoversary! I wrote my Welcome Post for this blog on May 10, 2008, about a week before my college graduation, which doesn’t seem like it was a full year ago. In one year, I’ve written 254 posts. I’ve read 77 books, but not written quite that many reviews. I’ve [...]

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Blog Improvement Project Week #9: Help Another Blog

by Kim on May 4, 2009 · 8 comments

When I think about why I love blogging, the first reason that comes to mind is the relationships I’ve built with other bloggers. So I think now is a good time to spread our blog improvement a little bit and try to help each other out. Week 9 for the Blog Improvement Project is to [...]

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Blog Improvement Project Week 6: Let's Get Social!

by Kim on March 16, 2009 · 14 comments

Thanks to everyone who submitted posts for the Social Media Carnival last week — I learned a ton from reading the posts, and I hope everyone else did too. Week 6 for the Blog Improvement Project (a long three weeks) is going to be pretty simple, trying out a new social media tool.  While I [...]

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Using Delicious for Blogging (BIP Week 5)

by Kim on March 12, 2009 · 8 comments

March is Social Media Month for the Blog Improvement Project, and the first task is to write about how you use a social media tool to improve your blog. I thought about writing on a bunch of different things, but finally decided to write about Delicious because it is one of the only tools I [...]

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