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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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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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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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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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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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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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Since we all learned about Dewey from The Hidden Side of a Leaf passing away, there has been a huge mobilization from book bloggers trying to figure out how to honor her memory and keep all her activities going. Becky from Becky’s Book Reviews suggested a Weekly Geek remembering Dewey, so that’s what I’m [...]
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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 had [...]
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