Weekly Link Round-Up

Even though I have a house filled with family from the UK, I've still managed to sneak in some browsing time. Let's see what sort of links I have for you this week....

Interesting Posts from Fellow Book Bloggers

• Natalie on Book, Line and Sinker has an excellent post that allows us to share our favorite blog features as well as the ones that we find extremely annoying.
• Alpha Heroes has a bookish questionnaire that I'm going to use on my blog soon.
• Jackie from Farm Lane Books Blog is having a Comment of the Week Competition. Make sure you enter!
• It's a Crime! (Or a Mystery...) is conducting a survey of book bloggers. I hope you'll all join in!
  

New to My Google Reader

• Roses Over a Cottage Door
• Reading Mama
• Lynne's Little Corner of the World
• Outlandish Dreaming
• a young lady's book lounge
• My Reading Journey
• Jenny Loves to Read
• Insert Book Title Here
• Texas Red Books
• the bookworm
• Today's Adventure
• Book Blather
• A Fondness for Reading
  

Blogging Tips

• Paula Krapf has written an excellent article about good PR practices and book bloggers. Unfortunately not all publishers follow her advice!
• Someone leave a nasty comment on one of your blog posts? Here are 5 Tips on how to handle it.
• The Blog Herald also posted about Google Analytics and why it might be a good idea to see if your code is up to date.

Social Media

• I enjoyed the Blog Herald's post on Twitter, "A Public Way to Have a Private Conversation".
• For those of us who use Glue, here's an article on How to Reply to the 2 Cents Tip.
• If your browser is Firefox, like mine, you might be interested in this post about 7 time saving Firefox add-ons.
• Smashing Apps also has a post about the 8 Most Useful Twitter tools.
• There's a new way to buy and sell things online. It's called Glyde.

Bookish Tidbits

• The New York Times has a fascinating article about a curator of private libraries, Kinsey Marable.
• Bleak House is for sale.
• 9 Words That Came from Science Fiction.
• 10 Lawyers Who Became Authors.
• How to Read 462 Books in One Year.

That's it for this week. (That's quite enough, innit?) If you're wondering how I managed to get this many links with a houseful of people, well...they're not here 24/7. There are times that everyone else is out and about, and I'm here with my niece Suzanne. I can browse and chat at the same time. There are also times that everyone else is out and about except for one of the kids and me. Daisy or Luke have been happily sitting at Denis's laptop, leaving me to carry on. (Sometimes at least one person gets left behind because there are six people here, and the largest vehicle we have only holds five behinds. Several times they've wanted to go to Target, and since I work there, I'm more than happy to have my behind be the one left behind!)

We've rented a mini-van for our overnight trip up to the Grand Canyon, so there'll be plenty of room for all our behinds and luggage. See you next week with another batch of links!