My apologies for this week's link round-up being a bit late. I've been enjoying my time off a bit too much! So with no further delay, let's get right to the links, shall we? Hopefully you'll find several that pique your interest.
Bookish News
- A language disappears, and we are all the poorer for it.
- A novel evening of speed-reading men, courtesy of the Edinburgh Bookshop.
- For fellow lovers of Scandinavian crime fiction, a bookworm's tour of murder in Sweden.
- Do you agree with this Top Ten List of Unreliable Narrators?
- For Presidents' Day-- our Best-Read Presidents. (And it will come as no surprise to any of us that the best-read also rank highly as our best.)
- Looking for some book-themed t-shirts?
- Amazon wants to give a free Kindle to Amazon Prime subscribers.
- Are you in the running for Glue's Guru Giveaways? What? You're passing up chances for FREE BOOKS???
- Lorna Barrett, author of the very enjoyable Booktown Mysteries, wants your help with the title of the fifth book in the series.
- Book blogger hits the big time.
- Nominate your favorite detectives as part of Jen's Detectives Around the World. It will be interesting to follow along and discover the winners!
- Liz of Mabel's House gives Turner Classic Movies her Top Ten Reasons Why She Should Be Hired as a Guest Host.
- Chris of Book-a-rama talks a bit about punctuation.
- Liz of A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy has more information about ARCs (Advanced Reader's Copies).
- Alyce of At Home With Books warns us about embedded comment boxes.
- Why you should add FAQ to your blog.
- The Top Ten Google Settings you should know about.
- The Facebook Guide Book by Mashable.
Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll have a whole new batch of links for your surfing pleasure!
What a fine collection of links this time, but I won´t use exclamation marks or smilies.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed several of them, but especially Top Ten List of Unreliable Narrators (I am trying to teach my students that first-person narrators are often unreliable). I have bookmarked the Booktown competition as I am too tired to be creative tonight, and you have probably guessed that I have read ´punctuation´ and am now trying to mend my ways.
Hummm. I use Firefox and have for years. I have never had a hard time commenting on embedded comment boxes. I suspect the problem is with the person's firewall or privacy settings.
ReplyDeleteGreat list of links -- as always. Off to see your new blogs.
Dorte-- I'm a bit of an unreliable narrator myself when I listed all those statements, stated that only one of them was true when they all were. :)
ReplyDeleteBeth-- I think you're right about the embedded comment boxes, but I have had readers tell me they couldn't leave comments when I'd switched to it, so I switched back to the pop-up. No need to antagonize readers! :)
Thanks--this is a particularly good collection of links! Or maybe I'm just in a procrastinating mood about work...
ReplyDeleteJeanne-- Six of one, half dozen of another?? ;)
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