The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,500 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many [...]
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16 Dec
The Versatile Blogger award
Whoohoo! There was such a nice alert this morning in my email: T.B.M. @ 50 Year Project graciously gave me the Versatile Blogger Award! Thanks so very much T.B.M., my most faithful commentator of 2011! Please go visit her blog: apart from wonderful book reviews, she also has fantastic daily pictures, ‘Travel Photo of the [...]
31 Oct
Prepare for Christmas: Rockpainting Exhibit
I know this is not related to books, but some of you may be interested – actually I’m preparing bookends on rocks, so here you go! As you may know, I’m also a rock painter, and this coming Saturday, you will have the opportunity to come and see, and even buy and order rocks. There [...]
28 Sep
1st blogiversary!!
So happy to celebrate my 1st blogiversary! I had actually started reviewing a few books on another site, but it’s really only on Sept 29, 2010 that I launched into something more serious and dedicated. This year of book blogging has been an amazing experience. I would like to paste here what I wrote during [...]
18 Sep
BBAW double giveaway winners
Thrilled to announce that random.org decided the winner of is KATE (The Parchment Girl) and the winner of is MARIE (Boston Bibliophile) Both winners have been contacted and have 24 hours to provide me with their mailing address. Congratulations to you Kate and Marie, and thanks to all participants.
27 Jun
Review #48: Cool Down with Agatha Christie – Endless Night discussion
Cool Down with Agatha Christie, Endless Night discussion 246 pages My review of this book will have a different format, as I read it for a Readalong. I was so excited when my favorite book blogger Jen @ Devourer of Books posted this Readalong, as I had never really done a Readlong, and the last [...]
26 May
Armchair BEA 2011: Live Chat and Twitter Party
Yesterday night, I listened to/participated in the Live Panel Discussions, with the Armchair BEA organizers and past BEA attendees. It lasted about an hour and was very i.nformative. Here are the main topics they discussed: BEA, Book Festivals & Trade Shows Publisher & Blogger Relationships How to Improve Book Blogging/Publisher Relationships The Blogging Community Where [...]
2 Mar
HarperCollins, ebooks, and libraries
You probably all know by now that “under the new policy, announced by distributor Overdrive in a letter to customers last week, libraries will only be able to lend out each purchased ebook published by HarperCollins a total of 26 times before the book’s lifetime expires.” [quoted from this article, where you can learn [...]
20 Jan
A new book coming by Beth Hoffman!
Did you read my review of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt? Did you like this book as much as I did? If so, rejoice, Beth Hoffman’s 2nd novel is coming. See here
17 Jan
The Good Novel bookstore in Paris
For my friends in Paris: http://www.thegoodnovel.com/ I juts love the name! A play on word with La Bonne Nouvelle – the Good News, meaning The Gospel, or just like when you receive a good news! Ah, ces Français!!
17 Jan
20,000 Bloggers Have Caught the BookSneeze Bug
20,000 Bloggers Have Caught the BookSneeze Bug (Nashville, Tenn.) In October 2008, Thomas Nelson launched a revolutionary new program mobilizing bloggers around the world to share reviews of the company’s latest products, Thomas Nelson Book Review Bloggers. The response was tremendous. In the first fourteen months, 7,500 bloggers signed on to read and review Nelson [...]
13 Jan
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem ALEICHEM 374 p. ABOUT THE BOOK Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the [...]
3 Jan
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William GOLDMAN MY OWN THOUGHTS This review on the last book read in 2010 begins like a mystery. I had heard about The Princess Bride, but when I was looking for it in my library, I always ended up [...]
30 Dec
Inside the School of Charity
Inside the School of Charity: Lessons from the Monastery by Trisha DAY ABOUT THE BOOK – 237 pages Drawing on her journals from living inside the enclosure of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey (a community of twenty Cistercian nuns) for three months in 2003, her reflections on the unexpected challenges and insights that [...]
22 Dec
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth HOFFMAN ABOUT THE BOOK – 306 pages The following can all be found on the Beth Hoffman’s website: a great website where you can find not only things related to the book, but also Beth’s art and decoration of houses and gardens. Lovely So, what’s the book about? [...]
