I seem to be slowly working myself back to the land of the human. Let's see what sort of links I can pull outta my hat!
Bookish News & Other Interesting Tidbits
- If, like me, photos of books, bookcases and reading places take you to The Happy Place, by all means visit Book Lovers Never Go to Bed Alone!
- Better World Books is a place to make your book buying dollars count.
- Online College has put together a listing of the 100 Best Blogs for Book Reviews. The list is by genre. Take a look-- you're going to see many very familiar blog names as well as new ones.
- Did you know that November 7 is National Bookstore Day?
- Want to know more about sustainable reading? Check out Eco-Libris.
- Check out these radical bookcases at the Web Urbanist.
- The Blog Herald talks about 5 Design Tweaks to Improve Your Blog Conversion Rates. (In the case of most book bloggers, that would be getting folks interested enough to subscribe to our blogs!)
- If your blog is through Google Blogger, did you know there's a site that will print out pages of your blog for you? Meet Blog2Print.
- Chris at Book-a-rama talks about Bringing Sexy Back to Reading.
- Jeanne at Necromancy Never Pays brings up some food for thought in The One-Eyed Monster.
- Gavin at Page 247 wonders just how useful our Google Readers are.
- Fyrefly talks about what is age appropriate.
- If you're in the need for a bit of the frivolous, check out Michele at A Reader's Respite as she contemplates a new interior design scheme....
- Tales of a Ravenous Reader wants our opinions on author signings.
- It's reviews like Rob's at robaroundbooks that make me keep windows open to my Paperback Swap and Amazon accounts as I go through my Google Reader.
- For me, the absolute best response to a BBAW meme was Dawn's on her blog She Is Too Fond of Books.
I've mentioned that Book Blogger Appreciation Week is the best week to come in contact with new blogs. Here are some of the blogs I discovered this past week.
- A library is a hospital for the mind
- Book Wars
- Deckled Edges
- a book in hand
- A Work in Progress
- Five Borough Book Review
- Jen's Book Thoughts
- Jules' Book Reviews
- Letters on Pages
- Of Books and Bicycles
- Steph & Tony Investigate!
- A Reading Collection
- A Sea of Books
- Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books
- eclectic/eccentric
- Heidenkind's Hideaway
- Reading My Life Away
- Stuck In A Book
- Tripping Toward Lucidity: Estella's Revenge
- Woolgatherings
I absolutely adore that you do this. Being rather lazy about tracking anything other than books, I love seeing someone else highlighting specific blogs, discussions, and other areas of interest for me. :)
ReplyDeleteCool, you were there :D
ReplyDeleteAnd so you should
I always love the links you collect. Especially this week, since one of them was by me! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for adding me to your blog list - it was great to meet you during BBAW. :)
ReplyDeleteTrish-- I'm really glad that you find these link posts of mine useful.
ReplyDeleteBlodeuedd-- Thanks!
Jeanne-- You're welcome. I really liked what you had to say.
Heather-- That's the best thing about BBAW: finding all the bloggers you've somehow managed to miss. It's taking me a lot longer to get through the posts in my Google Reader now!